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Post-Traumatic

Can Vivian live ecstatically after what has been done to her?

To the outside observer Vivian is a success story - a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a psychiatric hospital. Privately Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman living in a white society. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple tube ride into a heart-pounding drama.

For years Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating dieting dark humour and smoking weed with her best friend 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. Readers who loved Open Water A Little Life or Luster will adore this razor-sharp book about the aftermath of trauma that somehow manages to brim with warmth laughter and hope.

What people are saying about Post-Traumatic:

'Deeply original socially important psychologically revelatory propulsively and idiosyncratically readable. Post-Traumatic is a gem.' Elif Batuman author of The Idiot

'Stunning and riotous Post-Traumatic took me right under and then revived me like only the best fiction can do. Johnson's delicious meticulous prose delivers such intimacy and hilarity on the page I laughed and cried all the way through. This is a raw brilliant and unforgettable debut. I love everything about it!' Deesha Philyaw author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

'Vivian is one of the most fascinating characters I've read in contemporary fiction: self-aware and lost cutting and wounded resilient and vulnerable - all those misfit bits that add up to the whole of a real human being. Reading Post-Traumatic feels like an illicit thrill.' Dawnie Walton author of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

'Chantal V. Johnson has blessed us with a cool stylish and violently funny novel about survival. It made me smile laugh cringe shiver and think. Like life Post-Traumatic is richly triggering and highly recommended.' Myriam Gurba author of Mean

'Post-Traumatic is swift caustic charismatic beautiful terrifying and so incredibly funny. It learns and unlearns itself continually propelled by a restless main character whose gaze withers the world the reader and more achingly herself. Johnson composes such precise pathologically consumable prose that I couldn't stop reading even if it was the way I'd watch a scary movie: through my fingers.' Tommy Pico author of IRL and Junk

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAY 4, 2023
  • Imprint : Dialogue Books
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349702469
  • Price : INR 750
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