She tries to bring up the subject with friends who dismiss her desire for estrangement and the situation with her cousin. Online dating she meets Matthew, a handsome man who seems enamoured of her, and focuses on turning herself into the perfect woman he would find attractive.Īfter attending a family reunion with her family where Vivian is hit on by a cousin and witnesses her brother verbally abuse her nephew, Vivian contemplates cutting off her entire family. Semi-estranged from her abusive family, Vivian focuses on dating, hoping to find a boyfriend who she will be able to create a new family with. In private Vivian is struggling with being sexually assaulted as a child which has manifested itself in fear that she will be assaulted again and an eating disorder. Vivian is an outwardly successful seeming woman in her 30s who lives in New York City and has a job as a lawyer advocating for mentally ill patients who have been institutionalised. Upon its release, the book received mixed reviews.
Johnson wrote the novel while working full time as a lawyer. The novel follows an outwardly successful lawyer working at a psychiatric hospital who struggles with hypocritical thoughts and an eating disorder after experiencing sexual violence. The novel marked the debut of author Chantal V. Post-traumatic is an American novel first published in 2022 by Little, Brown and Company.
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