Problems

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.

subjects: Drug addicts,  Women,  Man-woman relationships,  Drug use,  Heroin abuse,  Fiction,  Fiction, humorous,  Fiction, family life,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, humorous, general,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Asian American,  FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor,  Fiction, general