Ruth Madievsky‘s All-Night Pharmacy is as bright as a neon bougainvillea bush, a fever dream of a novel about a 20-something second-generation Soviet-Jewish American woman who commits an act of violence on a Los Angeles hillside before her sister vanishes. It’s about Los Angeles nightlife, friendship, bisexuality, pill-popping, the complexities of sisterhood, nostalgia for a lost motherland, and a young woman’s search for how a person should be.
I spoke to Madievsky about her debut novel, immigrant shame, and how it takes empathy to be a great writer and healthcare professional (Madievsky is both).
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