Dead Above Ground

Jervey Tervalon

Feb 2008 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor

About this audiobook

QPBC New Voices Award winner Jervey Tervalon authors scintillating works of African-American fiction. Spellbinding, luminous, and richly atmospheric, Dead Above Ground tells the story of the wealthy Du Champs family of New Orleans. Helen, the matriarch, rules over her daughters Adele and Lita with an iron will. But Adele has fallen in love with smooth operator Lucien, who, unbeknownst to her, means to settle a decades-old score with her mother.

Ratings and reviews

I love this Book.I couldn't stop reading this until the end.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

About the author

Jervey Tervalon is an award winning poet, screenwriter and dramatist. His debut novel Understand This, won the 1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club. He has contributed to The Los Angeles Times, Details and other publications. He lives in California with his wife and child and teaches creative writing at California State University at Los Angeles.