Two years ago she was still from for him new Yorker active literary critic Parul Sehgal once a big criticism of the “trauma plot” that is omnipresent in literature, cinema and series. While “post-traumatic stress disorder” has moved up to fourth place on the list of the most frequently diagnosed mental disorders in America and injuries sustained are carried forward like status symbols, according to Sehgal, the “trauma plot” has developed into the predominant narrative form of our time. The exemplary novel of the genre is Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” and the form differs from the classic “marriage plot” of the 19th century in that the most important event in the characters’ lives is not in the future, but in the past .
Joy Williams’ novel “In Grace” – Culture
