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Author Jervey Tervalon.

Author Jervey Tervalon. He has written a first novel, titled "Understand This" (William Morrow and Company, Inc.). Tervalon set "Understand This" in today's South Central Los Angeles where he grew up and returned after college to teach in a public high school. He believes life is much more difficult in South Central L.A.--and everywhere in America--now. Tervalon's characters are faced with often overwhelming, life and death decisions. Their lives are complex--often intruded upon by guns and drugs, but also involved with the everyday struggle to raise families and live good lives. Tervalon is currently a Hollywood Pictures Screen Writing Fellow at Disney Studios and teaches fiction writing at U.C. Santa Barbara.

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Other segments from the episode on March 28, 1994

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 28, 1994: Interview with Ira Rutkow; Review of Oumou Sangare's albums "Moussolou" and "Ko Sira"; Interview with Jervey Tervalon; Review of Caleb Carr's novel "The…

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