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Mental illness and dealing with it unfold before the reader on all levels, from external to intimate. Tatjana Gromača is a stylistic perfectionist whose sentences always precisely hit the core of the problem. The novel Divine Children demands an attentive reader, ready to face their own traumas. Cathartic and powerful, these prose fragments form a unique novelistic whole in which, through the fate of one woman, all the most hidden traumas of a society unwilling to accept anything different are refracted and resolved. Tatjana Gromača's prose has the properties of primordial elements; it is devoid of any embellishment, any superfluous additions, it is stripped down to the bare essentials, which is why when reading it we feel the power of Greek tragedies. Tatjana Gromača is the most eminent writer of new Croatian prose, because she is incorruptible, sharp and so bitter. Gromača stands out for its precious roughness, there is almost no other phenomenon of this type in our country, which is devoid of any sweetness, and the almost obligatory youthful triumphalism. She has nothing to be happy about, living in familiar situations and difficult general circumstances, but she can be proud because she knows that. Her latest prose is a tiny masterpiece.