{"product_id":"post-traumatic-1","title":"Post-traumatic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A debut from a stunning talent, \u003ci\u003ePost-traumatic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Deeply original.” —Elif Batuman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Either\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Violently funny.” —Myriam Gurba, author of \u003ci\u003eMean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42705558864050,"sku":"9780316264334","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/O_35eba6a8-f42c-4f03-8acd-1e272a34940b.jpg?v=1774929666","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/post-traumatic-1","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}