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.
Understand This
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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."—José Saldívar, author of Border Matters
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