A violently funny (Myriam Gurba), pathologically consumable (Tommy Pico), brilliant (Deesha Philyaw) debut about a young Black Latina 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.
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..
With razor-sharp prose and mordant wit, Chantal V.
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.
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.
For years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humor and smoking weed with her BFF, Jane.
She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama.
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.
A violently funny (Myriam Gurba), pathologically consumable (Tommy Pico), brilliant (Deesha Philyaw) debut about a young Black Latina 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
