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All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel Hardcover – July 11, 2023

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*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
Winner of the California Book Award
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards

Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace


On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions—nothing unusual for two sisters bound in an incredibly toxic relationship. Our unnamed narrator has always been under the spell of the alluring and rebellious Debbie and, despite her own hesitations, she has always said yes to nights like these. That is, until Debbie disappears.

Falling deeper into the life she cultivated with her sister, our narrator gets a job as an emergency room secretary where she steals pills to sell on the side. Cue Sasha, a Jewish refugee from the former Soviet Union who arrives at the hospital claiming to be a psychic tasked with acting as the narrator’s spiritual guide. The nature of this relationship evolves and blurs, a kaleidoscope of friendship, sex, mysticism, and ambiguous power dynamics.

With prose pulsing like a neon sign, Ruth Madievsky’s
All-Night Pharmacy is an intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be. As she attempts sobriety and sexual embodiment, she must decide whether to search for her estranged sister, or allow her to remain a relic of the past.
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*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
Winner of the California Book Award
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards
A Hey Alma Finalist for the Jewish Pop Culture Awards

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Nylon, Hey Alma, Literary Hub, The Millions, Debutiful, Library Journal and more

Kveller, A Best Book of the Year
Shondaland, A Best Book of the Summer
Chicago Review of Books, A Best Debut of the Year
Lilith, A Best Book of the Year
The Pink News, A Best Sapphic Book of 2023
Debutiful, A Best Book of the Year
Goodreads, A Buzziest Debut Novel of the Yeara

"A tender and hilarious coming-of-age story of two sisters." —Betsy Bonner, The New York Times Book Review

"
All-Night Pharmacy is a kind of California neo-neo-noir, rebooting the genre’s saturated nightmares for the 21st century . . . Gorgeously rendered.” —Zoe Hu, The Washington Post

"
All-Night Pharmacy crackles with the energy of Hubert Selby Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream or Patrick deWitt’s Ablutions . . . It pulses with intensity as its characters struggle to find their way. The taut narrative is driven by Madievsky’s razor-sharp prose." —Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times

"By turns hilarious and harrowing, we follow the narrator as she wrestles with family dysfunction, addiction, seduction and, finally, a measure of self-reflection." —Hannah Bae,
San Francisco Chronicle

"A vivid debut." —
Vanity Fair

"Gripping." —
New York Magazine

"If you’re looking for a wild and delightfully weird sister story, this book is for you." —Emma Specter,
Vogue

"A glowing neon gem." —
The Orange County Register

"Madievsky’s debut has everything I want from a novel: a toxic sister relationship, countless nights at a trashy LA nightclub called Salvation, and a dreamy sapphic romance . . . This novel is hypnotic; I inhaled it." —Anna Dorn,
Nylon

"A compelling and mysterious story."—Melanie Curry,
Cosmopolitan

"A gripping, surrealist portrait of a toxic sibling relationship . . . Madievsky’s lyrical-prose style and arresting imagery create a book that is far more than an everyday romp through the Los Angeles underbelly. This is a startling story of a young woman consumed by the urge to do right." —Isle McElroy,
Vulture

"In an impressive undertaking, Madievsky weaves together a tale of addiction, queerness, and Jewish mysticism, bound together with vibrant imagery and thoughtful prose." —
The Cut

"
All-Night Pharmacy reads like an endless Los Angeles party: aglow with fervency and bursting with drugs, sex, desperate actors, energy healers, strippers, and eccentrics. At its heart, the book is a twinned character portrait of two sisters on the edge of adulthood. It’s stylish and smart—its gloss only hints to its depth, like the uncanny glisten of a see-through acrylic nail." —Maggie Lange, Bustle

"Highly anticipated . . . Eclectic, clever . . . An intoxicating, cutting, and wise tale that will surely land on everyone’s summer reading list." —Katie Tamola,
Shondaland

"A queer acid trip through Los Angeles and sisterhood that’s dripping with both mystery and mysticism . . . It’s a real page-turner, and the first book that’s made me actively interested in pharmacy—in other words, the perfect weekend beach read." —Kylie Cheung,
Jezebel

"
All-Night Pharmacy is both hilarious and painful, a keen exploration of a woman’s coming of age as she tries to locate a selfhood outside the bonds of sisterhood, obligation, and expectation." —Ilana Masad, them

"
All-Night Pharmacy feels like a Phoebe Bridgers song—spooky and sexy, stringing pop culture together with the abject, and always swelling with feeling . . . Madievsky uses dry humor, finely dialed insights, and lush, imagistic language to articulate the burdens of the past that we carry in our bodies." —Rosa Boshier González, The Believer

"A tender and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel . . . Exploring themes of family dynamics, generational trauma, coming out, and addiction, this book is hilarious, insightful, and unapologetically queer." —
BuzzFeed, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year

"
All-Night Pharmacy is an old-school LA novel in the best way, a total fever dream of lingering violence and lost souls." —Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books

"It’s a drug and booze-filled descent into grimy LA haunts, but it’s a fever dream you won’t want to wake up from. The complicated queer relationship the narrator ends up entangled in is a wild ride, but I’m especially endeared to the wild sister dynamics here." —Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya,
Autostraddle

"Ruth Madievsky masterfully navigates the protagonist’s search for self in an atmospheric coming-of-age perfect for the new millennium. The journey dances through a wide range of themes but still maintains precision focus through concise and beautiful prose. Despite everything going on, it remains an understated novel that feels dreamlike from page to page." —
Debutiful

"A kaleidoscope of friendship, sex, mysticism, and ambiguous power dynamics." —Dahlia Adler,
LGBTQ Reads

"[A] luminous debut novel . . . At once atmospheric and visceral." —Michelle Hart, An
Electric Literature Most Anticipated Book of 2023

"Tackling topics as wide-ranging as grooming, addiction to drugs and people, sexuality, and Shoah grief, Madievsky weaves a compelling coming-of-age yarn." —
Booklist

"The book covers about a year in our narrator’s life as she navigates sobriety, queerness, trauma, healing, and family. It doesn’t shy away from the difficult moments, the unexpected moments, the sexy moments. It’s a book about how hard it is to be a person, how it feels to navigate a life." —
Literary Hub, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year

"The tensions of the narrator’s life and the persistent sense of searching that permeates her brain make
All-Night Pharmacy hum with energy from the very first page, imbuing Madievsky’s narrative with a sense of darkly comic unpredictability that never overwhelms the emotional beats of her character’s journey . . . Madievsky is also a poet, and her knack for crafting imagery is on full display, merging the mundane and the profound to ensure her novel is thrilling all the way down to a sentence level. Ruth Madievsky displays tremendous storytelling range, capturing all that is bitter and hilarious, heartbreaking and enlightening, wise and foolish within the well-developed mind of a single central character." —Matthew Jackson, BookPage

"An electric tale . . . Madievsky renders her protagonist’s search for selfhood vividly and viscerally, resulting in a coming-of-age story that radiates like a Lynchian fever dream." —
Publishers Weekly

"[A] coolly delivered debut . . . Madievsky captures the mood of a woman working hard to connect with a sense of self, and she has an excellent arsenal of metaphors for disconnection . . . An assured debut, at once atmospheric and gritty." —
Kirkus Reviews

“Witty, poignant, and darkly funny,
All-Night Pharmacy is a vibrant debut about longing, identity, and the wild, unbreakable bonds of family. In prose that is sharp, exuberant, wry, and smart, Madievsky conjures an affecting, utterly unforgettable tale of two tempestuous sisters.” —Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light

"
All-Night Pharmacy is a genuinely propulsive and magnetic read. Madievsky's writing is rich and boldly dark, slick and queer in all the best ways. Immersing myself in her work felt akin to pressing on a bruise, a beautiful ache that I remembered long after I finished reading. A deeply human, wonderfully twisty novel that takes you down the rabbit hole of familial trauma and back up to the light again. All-Night Pharmacy is a glimmery showstopper of a debut novel. I'm obsessed with it." —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things

About the Author

RUTH MADIEVSKY’s writing appears in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, The Cut, GQ, Guernica, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of a poetry collection, Emergency Brake, and a Tin House Summer Workshop scholar. She cofounded the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identities have been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Catapult (July 11, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646221508
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1646221509
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Ruth Madievsky is the author of a novel, “All-Night Pharmacy” (Catapult, 2023) and a poetry collection, "Emergency Brake" (Tavern Books, 2016). Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Tin House, and elsewhere. Originally from Moldova, Ruth Madievsky lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist. You can find her at ruthmadievsky.com and on social media @ruthmadievsky.

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A really terrific novel that moves the one-time family trauma of Soviet Jewish experience into the realm of a somewhat (im)plausible mythology, native-born U.S. Americans' lives playing out in its distant shadow.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2023
    When I started the book I was either not in the mood or tired because I almost stopped after the first chapter thinking it wasn't my type of book. Well I was wrong. The author takes the two sisters who start out as wild ruthless nasty addicts and we actually watch them grow up, get clean and become responsible. Not an easy task. Along the way we get to meet an interesting cast of characters, their mother, grandmother, Ronnie and much loved Sasha. All fleshed out to where they all fall off the page. Depending on what you read this book may not be for you but for me it was amazing.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2023
    i liked the book the writing was very poetic, loved the characters, plot was a little flat to me tho
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2024
    Unlikeable characters. Felt like the story was all over the place. Didn't understand the Jewish connection. Not sure what I was supposed to take away from this book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
    I discovered this book by listening to the author being interviewed on the Otherppl podcast. I was intrigued. Then I read the book. I was even more captivated than I expected. Madievsky achieves just the right tone for her tale of two sisters struggling to disentangle from synergizing each other’s self-destruction. Recommended.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2023
    Ruth Madievsky creates an honest portrait of two sisters who grew up in Los Angeles with a Jewish Mother who suffers from mental illness and inevitable trauma responses from molestation, emotional abandonment and self sabotage. Their codependent relationship is their downfall into addiction and destructive behaviors. A brilliant portrait.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2023
    Unfortunately, this book is a very depressing read. I would not recommend it for boomers (like me) because it is likely that we just don’t understand. For me the book was disappointing and never grew to uplifting or even marginally hopeful. But I read to the end because of the writing, so there is that.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2023
    The writing was so rich, and frankly so far my favorite summer read. Definitely a self accounting masterpiece, one that allows us to look back on our youth and sovereign commitments to loyalty…, for loyalties sake.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2023
    The abrupt and meaningless ending completely underscored the entirety of this book: what exactly, if anything, was the point of this book?? Honestly. It was like a random bunch of incoherent thoughts strung together to fill 282 or so pages. The only reason I kept reading was because I held out the hope that something, anything of value would happen. I was wrong. Waste of time.
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