Description
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.
Author: Jade Sharma
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 7/5/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45 lbs
Size: 8.2″ H x 5.3″ L x 0.6″ W
ISBN: 9781566894425
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