A novel by Jade Sharma
July 5, 2016 5.5 x 8.25 208 Pages 978-1-56689-442-5
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 isnt much fun anymore. Mayas 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. Mayas struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful and imperfect and alive in a world that doesnt 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.
About the Author
Jade Sharma is a writer living in New York. She has an MFA from the New School.