PostTraumatic: Utterly compelling literary fiction about survival, hope and second chances

Vivian Is One Of The Most Fascinating Characters IVe Read In Contemporary Fiction: SelfAware And Lost, Cutting And Wounded, Resilient And Vulnerable All Those Misfit Bits That Add Up To The Whole Of A Real Human Being. Reading PostTraumatic Feels Like An Illicit Thrill. Dawnie Walton, Author Of The Final Revival Of Opal & Nevcan 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 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 Train Ride A HeartPounding Drama.For Years, Vivian Has SelfMedicated 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, PostTraumatic 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 RazorSharp Book About The Aftermath Of Trauma That Somehow Manages To Brim With Warmth, Laughter, And Hope.What People Are Saying About PostTraumatic:Deeply Original, Socially Important, Psychologically Revelatory, Propulsively And Idiosyncratically Readable. PostTraumatic Is A Gem. Elif Batuman, Author Of The IdiotStunning And Riotous, PostTraumatic Took Me Right Under And Then Revived Me, Like Only The Best Fiction Can Do. JohnsonS 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 LadiesChantal 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, PostTraumatic Is Richly Triggering And Highly Recommended. Myriam Gurba, Author Of MeanPostTraumatic 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 CouldnT Stop Reading, Even If It Was The Way ID Watch A Scary Movie: Through My Fingers. Tommy Pico, Author Of Irl And Junk