RaveThe Rumpus\"Though it may sound straightforward, Fever Dream’s narrative structure toys with the reader’s understanding of the events. Schweblin uses the novel’s structure to evoke the sense of being attentive to and pulled by something you are emotionally attached to ... what’s irresistible about the novel is how its structure heightens the interplay between what the David and Carla know and what Amanda, along with the reader, is desperate to figure out. Schweblin pushes the reader to piece together Fever Dream’s various meanings ... Although I don’t have answers for these questions, the novel still works for me. It explores urgency and love within the context of unknown harms. The characters will never figure out what happened, and neither will the reader. We have to accept the unknowns. Because knowing the facts isn’t the point.\
Jade Sharma
RaveThe Rumpus\"Problems doesn’t read as a shallow portrayal or sensational narrative of addiction. It’s real ... Even though there is a plot in Problems, what keeps you reading is the character development. The point of Problems is not to turn each page in hurried anticipation, to but glide through them gleefully because you want to see what shit Maya will say next ... Sharma doesn’t minimize the problems a drug addict can face. Instead, she turns the social perception of addicts as totally fucked-up and irredeemable losers into a story of how we respond to our perplexing problems.\
