Lita, Jervey Tervalon
Lita, Jervey Tervalon
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Lita

Author: Jervey Tervalon

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/28/2008

Categories: Fiction, Romance


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna’s Book Addiction on June 24, 2008

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 hosp......more

Goodreads review by Kayla on October 12, 2012

The first part of Lolita was a bit of a struggle for me to get through. I almost gave up on it, but it picks up as the story progresses when she returns to New Orleans. Lita isn't your typical main character, and in my opinion, she had a few too many unlikeable traits, but I ended up still pulling f......more

Goodreads review by Greta on September 28, 2011

Looking for a book you can swallow whole (read in one day); and have a smile on your face while you're doing it? Another story floating in, out & around New Orleans and it's people. What's not to like?......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 03, 2009

This book got a LOT better toward the last 85 pages. I had a hard time grasping the characters and found the main character, Lita, a bully and just plain obnoxious.......more

Goodreads review by Reshablack on June 20, 2014

enjoyable read I now wish to read more from this writer......more