Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Post-Traumatic

Post-Traumatic

Johnson, Chantal V.

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0316264334
ISBN13: 9780316264334
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Mar 21 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.19
Language: English

In this story on survival, 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.

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.

Deeply original. --Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or

Violently funny. --Myriam Gurba, author of Mean

Also in

General Fiction

View All