{"product_id":"post-traumatic-a-novel-trade-paperback","title":"Post-Traumatic: A Novel: Trade Paperback","description":"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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nFor 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?\n\nA 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.\n\n“Deeply original.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either\/Or\n\n“Violently funny.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Mean","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48170081714339,"sku":"9780316264334","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/8588\/4579\/files\/0e917ec996869dcfdc348fdcec627ea1519c0d37ecbbed79d93b18cc18ddc7fa.jpg?v=1789929947","url":"https:\/\/www.bellhousebooks.com\/products\/post-traumatic-a-novel-trade-paperback","provider":"Bell House Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}