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"Good literature has no agenda; it's not propoganda. Tervalon offers no 'solutions' but gives us instead a portait of people who live in a certain world at a certain time and who do the best they can. Understand This is perhaps less an order than a plea." -- Washington Post.
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"In Understand This, Jervey Tervalon reminds us that sad tales and lost souls may tear our hearts apart but they don't stop life from continually renewing itself." -- Quarterly Black Review Of Books.
"Understand This explores more difficult landscape -- geographic and interior -- than many of its angrier and grittier brethren, pushing readers into the minds of the sort of African-American Angelenos that most books and movies and hip-hop music ignore. Resisting the peer pressure to posture macho, Tervalon is freer to flex his wit, work out his fine observational skills, and inject his warmth into the yarn. A daring book." -- Los Angeles Times.
"Gritty and gripping, Understand This marks the debut of a powerful new voice in American fiction." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"An urban masterpiece... a gritty, haunting West Side Story-esque ghetto romance of stunning violence yet overpowering beauty." -- Philadelphia Enquirer..
"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
"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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- PublisherAnchor
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0385478240
- ISBN 13 9780385478243
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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