Set in Los Angeles, ‘All-Night Pharmacy,’ which was inspired by Denis Johnson and Rachel Kushner, looks at substance abuse and recovery and intergenerational trauma.
Shortly after finishing her undergraduate degree at USC and entering the university’s pharmacy school in 2014, Ruth Madievsky began writing a series of short stories that would develop into her debut novel, “All-Night Pharmacy,” which is in stores on July 11 from Catapult.
By 2019, when Madievsky was working as a pharmacist in Boston, the stories had become a novel. “All-Night Pharmacy” weaves together themes of substance abuse and recovery, familial relationships and intergenerational trauma in the story of the unnamed narrator’s tumultuous journey into adulthood.“It did in some ways.
“I had that philosophy about describing the bar and the people who would be at the bar with this very intense specificity that feels both kind of unrelatable — I don’t think any of us have been to a bar where someone has a goat drinking beer — but also something about that specificity felt very L.A. and real to me,” she says. “Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that it won’t.”also traveled during the course of writing the novel.
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