'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 Can Vivian find happiness 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 after-effects 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 train ride 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 '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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