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Draw Me

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Ruth Madievsky’s much-anticipated debut novel, , begins with the narrator’s sister, Debbie, preparing them for a night out in East Hollywood. Brows are plucked, pores are extracted, lips made perfectly symmetrical with a color called Toxic — Madievsky’s prose overflows with deliciously observed detail, but manages, somehow, to move at the clip of a racehorse — and

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