Rachel Khong

Hello, ageing parents. Hello, dementia. Goodbye, vitamin... 'Khong is a magician... Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant' Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fianc� are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. For a year. Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career; she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits - in the absence of a cure - of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills; and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible, sweet old man her father has become. 'Half stand-up comic, half seismographer of the human heart ... Khong writes with a gentle humour that moves you not only to care for her characters, but also to care more fervently for the people in your life' Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine 'One of the funniest elegiac novels I have ever read' David Leavitt, author of The Lost Language of Cranes

Goodbye, Vitamin

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?

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Real Americans

My Dear You

Das Jahr, in dem Dad ein Steak bügelte

Presents a collection of foolproof egg recipes, including such dishes as Taiwanese oyster omelet, eggs Benedict, egg curry, and soft-boiled egg, along with anecdotes and techniques.

everything we know about the world's most important food

All about eggs

"Un catálogo de nuestros días, una canción de amor a lo efímero, una colección de instantáneas de las celebraciones y fallas cotidianas. La suma de estos fragmentos crea una novela que inesperadamente te desnuda y te deja sintiéndote más compasivo... y perdonado". —STEPHANIE DANLER, autora de la novela bestseller Sweetbitter Ruth acaba de romper su compromiso amoroso y siente que la vida no es exactamente lo que había planeado. A sus treinta años renuncia a su trabajo, deja la ciudad en la que vive y regresa a casa de sus padres sólo para encontrar que su vida familiar es aún más complicada de lo que imaginaba. Su padre, un reconocido profesor de Historia, está perdiendo la memoria, ha comenzado a olvidar desde cosas cotidianas, como la forma de sus alimentos favoritos, hasta sus recuerdos más preciados. Su madre no puede con la culpa. ¿Será que es la responsable de que su esposo ahora padezca alzhéimer? A Ruth sólo le queda acompañarlos en lo inevitable: verlos envejecer y de nuevo aprender a vivir con ellos, con todo y los regaños de su padre y las vitaminas de su madre.

Vitaminas para no olvidar

the editors of Lucky Peach

A handbook, a cookbook, an eggbook: this quasi-encyclopedic ovarian overview is the only tome you need to own about the indispensable egg. Eggs: star of the most important meal of the day, and, to hear billions of cooks and chefs tell it, quite possibly the world's most important food. Does that make Lucky Peach's All About Eggs the world's most important book? Probably yes. In essays, anecdotes, how-tos, and foolproof recipes, this egg-centric volume celebrates everything an egg can be and do. Whether illuminating the progress of an egg through a chicken, or teaching you how to poach the perfect egg, All About Eggs bursts with facts to deploy at your next cocktail party—then serves up a killer deviled egg recipe to serve while you’re doing it. All About Eggs is for anyone who has ever delighted in the pleasures of an omelet, marveled at the snowflake patterns on a century egg, or longed to make a sky-high soufflé.

Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food: A Cookbook

Lucky Peach All About Eggs

Brian Joseph Davis

Sarah Gerard

Ottessa Moshfegh

Adam Sol

Mimi Lipson

Katie Chase

Sarah Dohrmann

Sam Shelstad

Heather Sappenfield

Tobias Carroll

Retro 4 is the latest collection of the best, the funniest, the strangest, and the most affecting stories from the award winning literary magazine, Joyland.

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