Understand This - Paperback
by Jervey Tervalon (Author), Richard Yarborough (Foreword by)
Jervey Tervalon's novel about young people in South Central Los Angeles grows out of his experience teaching in a high school there and his pain at the death of one of his favorite students.
Gritty and gripping, Understand This marks the debut of a powerful new voice in American fiction.--Henry Louis Gates Jr., author of The Signifying Monkey
Lean, wire-tight, and dazzlingly structured, Tervalon's Understand This is a book for our times.--José Saldívar, author of Border Matters
Gritty and gripping, Understand This marks the debut of a powerful new voice in American fiction.--Henry Louis Gates Jr., author of The Signifying Monkey
"Lean, wire-tight, and dazzlingly structured, Tervalon's Understand This is a book for our times."--José Saldívar, author of Border Matters
Jervey Tervalon teaches English at California State University, Los Angeles. His most recent novel is Dead Above Ground (2000).
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