By Nicholas Belardes In Tyrell Johnson’s second novel, The Lost Kings, Jeanie King has to stitch together a violent, uncertain past in order to understand the mysterious disappearance of her brother and father. We’re right there with her, tight amid all her reliability and unreliability as a narrator. At times, her traumatic story reads like a case study of the dangers American families face post-war, post-Covid, post–anything collectively horrible. We connect to her because she helps us see who we could become if we don’t seek to infiltrate the trauma that may inhabit us. Amid all of this connectivity between…