Lita

Written by Jervey Tervalon

Narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor

Jervey Tervalon is a QPBC New Voices Award winner and critically-acclaimed author of Dead Above Ground (F0133). Kirkus Reviews calls his sequel, Lita, "Hair-raising and hellish." Lita Du Champ has moved to L.A. to start a new life, with a husband and two children. But family matters are calling her back to New Orleans, where she must face her dying father and deal with the ghosts of her past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 28, 2008
• ISBN: 9781440798610

Jervey Tervalon

Jervey Tervalon is the author of five books, including the bestselling Dead Above Ground and Understand This, for which he won the New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club. He edited the anthology The Cocaine Chronicles. He was a Remsen Bird writer in residence at Occidental College and a Disney screenwriting fellow. He is the director of the Literature for Life project, an online literary magazine and salon, and the literary director of LitFest Pasadena. Born in New Orleans, he now lives in California and teaches at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

Reviews for Lita

[onnaday · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Lita - the strong, in your face, make no excuses female character is to be liked. There were more humorous scenes in this novel as compared to "Dead Above Ground". For example: When Lita slaps Aunt Dot so hard it sends her to the ground (she deserved it). Throwing the oyster loaf all around the hospital room and the nurse having to break it up (page 136-137) FUNNY, or at the funeral when it's revealed that Gloria (Stepmother) has a will claiming ownership of the house, but rather than confront Gloria themselves they tell Aunt Dot whom takes care of it as they pull away from the church in the hearse (page 188-189) HILLARIOUS! I really enjoyed this book and "Dead Above Ground". I look forward to more from this author.