[ad_1] In Chantal V. Johnson’s emotionally complex first play, AFTER TRAUMA (312 p., Little, Brown, $28), Vivian, the 30-year-old daughter of a Black father and Puerto Rican mother, works as a state-appointed attorney for minors in a public psychiatric ward in New York. A survivor of sexual abuse as a child, Vivian has a deep …

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