![]() ![]() ![]() When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking. In “The Last Conversation,” a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. He won’t show it to her and he won’t let the box out of his sight. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with “the dead thing” inside. In “The Dead Thing,” a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and split. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. ![]() The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay fiction / horror. “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 The taut narrative is driven by Madievsky’s razor-sharp prose.” – Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times “ 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. “Get ready for one of the best books of the new millennium… Madievsky has entered the pantheon of debut authors readers will be talking about a decade from now and beyond.” – Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful 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. ![]() 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. The nature of this relationship evolves and blurs, a kaleidoscope of friendship, sex, mysticism, and ambiguous power dynamics. 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. That is, until Debbie disappears.įalling 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. 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. 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. 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. “When you don’t know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.” – Katherine Center, How to Walk AwayĪll-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky ★ fiction. ![]()
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