Jervey Trevalon, Author, Jervey Tervalon, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (271p) ISBN 978-0-688-04560-9
The gritty reality of teenage lives in the violent caldron of urban Los Angeles is perfectly captured in this graphic, vividly realized first novel. Francois Williams sees his best friend Doug shot and killed by Doug's drug addict girlfriend Rika....
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Jervey Tervalon, Author . S&S/Atria $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7434-2238-3
A young black college instructor finds himself enmeshed in an over-the-top romantic triangle in Tervalon's latest, a fast-moving but shallow look at the California dating scene from an African-American perspective. Randy 28-year-old English...
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Jervey Tervalon, Author . Atria $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4884-0
This muddled sequel to Dead Above Ground
opens when the protagonist of the first book, Lita Du Champ, is summoned back to New Orleans after a decade in Los Angeles when she learns that her father is dying. Tervalon presents a jumbled series of...
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Jervey Tervalon, Author Incommunicado Press $13 (180p) ISBN 978-1-888277-08-1
In the South Central Los Angeles of the 1970s, the Crips were a nascent street gang and neighborhood blocks were just becoming ""territories to be defended as though the avenues and streets had natural resources or religious significance."" This is...
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Jervey Tervalon. Amistad, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-231620-2
At the center of this moderately suspenseful novel from Tervalon (Dead Above Ground) is Monster, a Michael Jackson–like eccentric recluse who has surrounded himself with well-paid flunkies in a remote mountain retreat. Gibson, who is on parole and...
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Jervey Tervalon, Author, Tervalon, Author Anchor Books $19 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-47824-3
Tervalon's graphic, vividly realized debut about two high school students in South Central Los Angeles was awarded QPB's New Voices Award for 1994. (July)
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