![]() ![]() ![]() I liked Ruth’s voice and enjoyed following her throughout this year of her life. I found this to be a really well crafted novel, and for such a short story, one that manages to evoke a fair amount of emotion, with moments of sadness, frustration, happiness, and humour. What surprises me now is that there are so many sane ones.” “A long time ago I stopped wondering why there are so many crazy people. During this time she comes to terms with the end of her engagement, gains new knowledge about her family, and hopefully a new direction for her future. Ruth decides to quit her job and move home for a year to help. When she visits her family for the holidays, for the first time in many years, she learns of her father’s battle with dementia and gradually deteriorating condition. Ruth is thirty-years-old and dealing with the break-up of her engagement, which has left her feeling somewhat detached and lost. ![]() It is told in a diary type format, and we get small fragments of daily events in the life of a woman named Ruth, over the course of a year. Goodbye, Vitamin is a touching and quirky novel that is quite lovely in its simplicity. That it has only to do with who we were around that person-what we felt about that person.” That the reasons we can care for one another can have nothing to do with the person cared for. ![]() “What imperfect carriers of love we are, and what imperfect givers. ![]()
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