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Synopsis
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.
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""Understand This" speaks convincingly in the idiom of the street, weaving in and out of several characters' stories, the dramas behind them described with intelligence and charity."--Michael E. Ross, "New York Times Book Review"
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"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."--Jose Saldivar, author of "Border Matters"
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0520223551
- ISBN 13 9780520223554
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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