Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple Books

Google Play

Powell's Books

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Chantal V. Johnson:

Post-traumatic, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Post-traumatic, April 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

Post-traumatic
Chantal V. Johnson

Back Bay Books
April 2023
On Sale: March 21, 2023
Featuring: Vivian
320 pages
ISBN: 0316264334
EAN: 9780316264334
Kindle: B09Q321412
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Other Editions
Hardcover (April 2022)

Women's Fiction Psychological | Fantasy Dark

A “deeply original” (Elif Batuman), “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba), “brilliant and unforgettable” (Deesha Philyaw) debut about a young lawyer finally confronting her dark past

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.

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!