PositiveThe Minneapolis Star Tribune\"Problems is dominated by one key attribute of Maya’s: her unflinching bluntness. She lays everything out there regardless of conventional ugliness level, from dope-sick bowel movements to the painfully awkward denouement of her one-sided extramarital affair ... While much of Problems is about the demon of addiction and the contrasting types of obstacles Maya must face while high vs. while sober, the novel also captures the raw details of a turning point in someone’s life.\
Ludmila Ulitskaya
MixedMinneapolis Star TribuneWhile more insight into the lives of some of the central characters and less into the lives of the tangential ones would occasionally have been welcome, it is undeniable that with this novel Ulitskaya has pulled off a multipronged feat.
