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    Constance Wu will star in an adaptation of Rachel Khong’s Goodbye, Vitamin

    Emily Temple
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    June 24, 2019, 1:42pm

    Today, Variety reported that Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to Rachel Khong’s 2017 novel Goodbye, Vitamin, with Constance Wu, of Crazy Rich Asians fame, attached to star and produce.

    Goodbye, Vitamin, Khong’s debut novel, is a tragicomedy in which a newly single woman moves back in with her father, who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Read an excerpt from the novel—which was one of our favorites of 2017—here.

    Constance Wu literary adaptations Rachel Khong

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