In many respects, Tatjana Gromača stands out in the Croatian literary scene; she makes no compromises, keeps out of trends, and paints new literary landscapes. Her latest novel God’s Children (Božanska dječica) is no exception. Gromača is decisive, intimately frank, unflattering, absolutely unsparing when it comes to herself and her closest relations. The reader witnesses an unfolding of a psychiatric disease and how the protagonist has to face it in every single aspect, from the outward to the most inward. In the minutiae of style Tatjana Gromača is a perfectionist, whose sentences unmistakeably hit the bull’s eye. The novel God’s Children commands attentive reading and willingness to face one’s own traumas. It blends cathartic and powerful prose fragments that through one woman’s destiny combine and unfold the darkest personal traumas of an individual scarred by her otherness.

Gromača’s prose is primordial, devoid of ornamentation and unnecessary detailing, bare to the bone, which makes its reading as powerful as that of a Greek tragedy.