All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
Editorial Assistant Book Club: August 2023
After you read enough debut novels you start to recognize some common hallmarks. The narrators usually come unnamed or lightly pseudonym’d. The encounters are random and fragmented, with an acid-trip-like quality. Substance abuse and adolescent traumas are common. Enigmatic, dangerous friends and/or lovers hang over the protagonists like drenched rainco…
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