{"product_id":"post-traumatic","title":"Post-Traumatic","description":"'Vivian is one of the most fascinating characters I've read in contemporary fiction: self-aware and lost, cutting and wounded, resilient and vulnerable - all those misfit bits that add up to the whole of a real human being. Reading Post-Traumatic feels like an illicit thrill.' Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal \u0026amp; Nev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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 after-effects 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 heart-pounding drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, Vivian has self-medicated 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill she find a way to repair what matters most to her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA debut from a stunning talent, Post-Traumatic 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 razor-sharp book about the aftermath of trauma that somehow manages to brim with warmth, laughter, and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat people are saying about Post-Traumatic:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Deeply original, socially important, psychologically revelatory, propulsively and idiosyncratically readable. Post-Traumatic is a gem.' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stunning and riotous, Post-Traumatic took me right under and then revived me, like only the best fiction can do. Johnson's 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 Ladies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Chantal 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, Post-Traumatic is richly triggering and highly recommended.' Myriam Gurba, author of Mean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Post-Traumatic 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 couldn't stop reading, even if it was the way I'd watch a scary movie: through my fingers.' Tommy Pico, author of IRL and Junk","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57779888881990,"sku":"9780349702469","price":16.19,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/f1e1ba9c445bb3c0ab0914dbcf19fd4d56c7f799630ee493c71b88da64dd1232.jpg?v=1793757796","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/post-traumatic","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}