A Portrait of the Self as a Young Woman in “All-Night Pharmacy” – Chicago Review of Books

A Portrait of the Self as a Young Woman in “All-Night Pharmacy” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s fitting that the narrator of Ruth Madievsky’s debut novel, All-Night Pharmacy, is never given a name. Despite the first-person participant point of view, she seems to have sprung fully formed from the functions of those around her, namely her sister, Debbie. Her own traits, her own personhood, are obliterated when Debbie is around. … Read more