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An unsentimental novel depicts true-to-life characters in a south central Los Angeles community who struggle for integrity and self-respect in an environment of gangs, guns, drugs, and death
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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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Jervey Tervalon teaches fiction writing at UC Santa Barbara.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 068804560X
- ISBN 13 9780688045609
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages271
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