Dead Above Ground

Name: Dead Above Ground
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jervey Tervalon
ISBN: 9781440798603

Author: Jervey Tervalon

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna’s Book Addiction on January 15, 2017

This story of murder, love, and hate will not let you put the book down. You'll find out the family secrests and why Helen has a real hate for this man her daughter wants to run away with. And all through this Lita is still working on keeping the family a strong unit. I admired Lita - she is a lovin......more

Goodreads review by Tony on October 14, 2007

A disappointingly generic book from a writer whose earlier work exhibits a much stronger voice. For full review, see [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Laura on March 21, 2021

Lita Du Champ's mother, Helen, is busy trying to plan Lita's wedding and planning how to kill her other daughter's lover. Set in 1940's New Orleans, this is a tale of family secrets and revenge and was a compelling read, full of atmosphere.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on March 01, 2017

I came into this never before reading a Jervey Tervalon novel, and I must say hats off to the author, because this story is pure genius. Tervalon paints pictures with his words as we travel in time to the 1940's, in the searing and humid city of New Orleans, Louisiana. We meet the Du Champ girls, Lit......more

Goodreads review by Miel Finely on January 14, 2017

This book is a most read suspend and plenty of mystery......more