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Availability:In StockContributor:Chantal V. JohnsonPublish date:2023-03-21Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316264334ISBN-10:316264334UPC:9780316264334Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Hispanic & Latino, FeministBook Topic:WomenSize:8.19 x 5.43 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCBQECQJ5D

In this "deeply original" (Elif Batuman) and "violently funny" (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer finally confronts her dark past so she can live in a more peaceful future.

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. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood--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.

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:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316264334ISBN-10:316264334UPC:9780316264334Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Hispanic & Latino, FeministBook Topic:WomenSize:8.19 x 5.43 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCBQECQJ5D

Chantal V. Johnson is a tenant lawyer and writer. A graduate of Stanford Law School and a 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, she lives in New York.


Publisher: Back Bay Books

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