"Maya is not polite, and although I found her captivating and charming, Sharma's goal is not to make her likable. Maya is as horrible, and as fully human, as men in literature have always been allowed to be." --New York Times Sunday Book Review

"Sharma's lucid intelligence makes this story of the death throes of a marriage between a junkie and an alcoholic impossible to get out of your mind." --Vulture

"Debut novelist Jade Sharma writes in a voice that is equal parts irreverent and hilarious, depressive and hopeful, and Problems was by far one of the most interesting and uncommon books I read this year." --Bustle

"With searing honesty and an unflinching gaze, Sharma brilliantly dismantles the brittle structures that so many young women today have built around themselves in the hopes that eventually the interior will match what's on the outside." --Nylon

"Sharma's debut is an uncompromising and unforgettable depiction of the corrosive loop of addiction, and with Maya, she has crafted a momentous and painfully honest voice."--Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2016

"Sharma's debut novel is an uncompromising and unforgettable depiction of the corrosive loop of addiction. . . . there is a propulsive energy in Maya's story, guided by her askew yet precise perspective . . . in Maya's voice, Sharma has crafted a momentous force that never flags and feels painfully honest." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The novel is written so well that the relentless and destructive rhythm of heroin abuse seems calming, metaphysical, and occasionally even funny. Sharma's descriptions are vivid and sage . . . lulling readers into a similarly opiate state to which they will readily succumb and from which, like the protagonist, it will take some time to recover. An absorbing novel carried by a seemingly hopeless protagonist you will want to befriend and save." --Kirkus

"Sharma laces her prose with a particularly strong strain of dark humor, leaving elegant signatures on every page with the abandon of a drunk hostess who's been handed a blank prescription pad, granted immunity, and charged with a divine imperative to make sure everyone has a good time."--The Rumpus
"Maya's inner world is raw and repulsive, but astutely rendered by Sharma. The book is simultaneously hard to read and hard to put down." --Publishers Weekly

"[Maya's] problems could fill a book -- and in fact, they do, in a brisk, mordantly funny, fragmented narrative that is refreshingly honest, despite the fact that Maya is a liar." --Los Angeles Times

"[Maya is] by turns raunchy, clever, spunky, sage, funny and forlorn as she barrels through the vicissitudes of a life of addiction grasping for an escape hatch--such a fresh voice that we can't help but hope she finds one. . . . Jade Sharma's debut novel of a young New York City junkie is on the money, harrowing, perspicacious, funny and somehow still uplifting." --Shelf Awareness

"Problems, told in fragments of Maya's thoughts, avoids the clichés of addition and recovery narratives to speak to something dark, hilarious and deeply real."--Autostraddle

"Jade Sharma's debut is a darkly funny character study of an unhappy yet witty-as-hell woman whose self-destructive streak is as appalling as it is somehow understandable. Problems challen