Friday Oct 04, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Book.
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.
About the Author.
Ruth Madievsky is the author of the national bestselling novel, All-Night Pharmacy, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, as well as a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her work appears in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, and elsewhere. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist.
Ruth will be joined by readers Erin Somers, Simon Wu, and Sarah Thankam Mathews
About the Readers.
Erin Somers is the author of the novel Stay Up With Hugo Best and a reporter at Publishers Lunch. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and lives in New York with her husband and daughters.