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Post traumatic chantal v johnson6/12/2023 She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple train ride a heart-pounding drama.įor years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humour and smoking weed with her best friend, Jane. 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. To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story – a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a psychiatric hospital. Reading Post-Traumatic feels like an illicit thrill.’ Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal & NevĬan Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her? ‘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.
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