A Lena Dunham Must-Read for Women (?Unbelievably funny . . . a brilliant novel?)
Girls meets Trainspotting: Problems is a bold and witty book about a part-time heroin user and her increasingly full-time problems.
Dark, raw, and very funny, Problems introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she has to make some choices.
Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful and imperfect and alive in a world that doesn't really care what happens to her is rendered with dead-eyed clarity and unnerving charm. This book takes every tired trope about addiction and recovery, ?likeable? characters, and redemption narratives, and blows them to pieces.
Autorentext
Jade Sharma was a writer based in New York; she had an MFA from The New School. Jade Sharma died on July 24, 2019. She was 39 years old.
Klappentext
A young woman's life in New York City is upended by addiction in this debut novel "that is equal parts irreverent and hilarious, depressive and hopeful" (Bustle).
Maya is a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. She's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her, and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely calibrated life descends into chaos.
Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful, imperfect, and alive in a world that doesn't really care what happens to her is rendered with dead-eyed clarity and unnerving charm. Rendered in frank, graphic, highly charged language where "everything rings true" and "leaves you on a high" (The Guardian), The New York Times exclaimed "a novel about a heroin addict shouldn't be this much fun to read."