num_pages: 320
description: A debut about a young Black Latina lawyer finally confronting her dark pastTo the outside observer Vivian is a success storya dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Privately Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhoodcompounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman in America. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama.For years Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating dieting dark humor and smoking weed with her BFF Jane. But after a family reunion prompts Vivian to take a bold step she finds herself alone in new and terrifying ways without even Jane to confide in and she starts to unravel. Will she find a way to repair what matters most to her?A debut from a stunning talent Post-traumatic is a new kind of survivor narrative featuring a complex heroine who is blazingly indelibly alive. With razor-sharp prose and mordant wit Chantal V. Johnson performs an extraordinary feat delivering a psychologically astute story about the aftermath of trauma that somehow manages to brim with warmth laughter and hope.
language: English
title: Post-Traumatic
publisher: Little, Brown and Company