Understand This
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A01=Jervey Tervalon
american literature
authentic
Author_Jervey Tervalon
california
california fiction series
Category=FBA
contemporary literature
dealing with death
dealing with loss
death
depression
drug trade
emotional
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football player
gripping
gritty
growing up
high school teacher
homelessness
insightful
intense
la
murder
personal
personal struggles
pregnancy
psychological thriller
relationships
revenge
shootings
south central los angeles
struggling kids
students
teaching
variety of narrators
Product details
- ISBN 9780520223554
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jervey Tervalon teaches English at California State University, Los Angeles. His most recent novel is Dead Above Ground (2000).
