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Goodbye vitamin novel5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() And just this past Christmas, we buried my mother-in-law after Alzheimer’s had whittled her down to nothing. As a reporter in Congo, I spent years writing about refugees and mass movements of displaced persons fleeing war and famine. ![]() Goodbye, Vitamin is narrated by a 30-year-old woman named Ruth who, after suffering a breakup, moves home with her parents to care for her father, a professor and former alcoholic who now has Alzheimer’s.īoth books were oddly personal for me. Known connections to this year’s contenders: “None.”Įxit West follows the journey of Saeed and Nadia, two lovers who flee their unnamed country as it descends into chaos and war, only to discover a series of magical doors that serve as first-world escape hatches for millions of refugees on the move. Bryan Mealer is a journalist and the author of four books, including the bestselling The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (with William Kamkwamba), soon to be a major film, and The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family’s Search for the American Dream. ![]()
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