Problems
By: Jade Sharma
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781566894425
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Drug addicts; Women; Man-woman relationships; Drug use; Heroin abuse; Fiction
Description: "Dark, raw, and very funny, [this book] 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"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "An Emily Books original."