With razor-sharp prose and mordant wit, Chantal V. Will she find a way to repair what matters most to her?Ī debut from a stunning talent, POST-TRAUMATIC is a new kind of survivor narrative, featuring a complex heroine who is blazingly, indelibly alive. Haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child-compounded 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.įor years, Vivian has white-knuckled her way through, self-medicating with a mix of humor, dieting, intellectualizing, and smoking weed with her BFF-and main support system-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. Plagued by obsessive thoughts, she grasps at new coping strategies, and as each one backfires she unravels further. But privately, Vivian has more in common with some of her clients than she would care to admit. To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story-a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. In this fresh take on the survivor narrative, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships-a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship for fans of Roxane Gay, Brandon Taylor, and Raven Leilani.
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