Serving Monster

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Serving Monster is the story of Gibson, the personal chef of an immensely talented, but deeply strange icon of popular culture, Monster Stiles. While working for Monster, Gibson realizes that not all is what it seems at the Lair, Monster’s isolated and beautiful retreat. At great cost to himself, what Gibson discovers at the heart of the Lair, will reveal more about the startling truth of Monster than anyone could ever imagine.

Quotes on the work of Jervey Tervalon

Los Angeles Times:
The city [of New Orleans] shimmers to life through the perfect pitch of the people who inhabit the tale.

The Times-Picayune:
Tragic, violent, but ultimately transcendent, Dead Above Ground draws the reader in and never lets go.

The Philadelphia Inquirer:
An urban masterpiece, a gritty, haunting West Side Story-esque ghetto epic of stunning violence yet overpowering beauty.

Quarterly Black Review of Books:
Tervalon's prose is both unrelenting and nonjudgmental....[He] reminds us that sad tales and lost souls may tear our hearts apart, but they don't stop life from continually renewing itself.

Los Angeles Times All the Trouble You Need is a page-turner. Drama develops at a tantalizing clip.

Los Angeles Magazine The twisting plots and drawing room intrigues are captivating.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. A powerful new voice in American fiction.

Los Angeles Times:
Lita is fierce....You'd know her if you met her. And that is one of the highest compliments a reader can give a writer.

Kirkus Reviews:
A return visit to the monstrously twisted family of Dead Above Ground....Hair raising and hellish.

Black Issues Book Review:
Tervalon's writing is crisp and concise, sweet and tart like a ripe Fuji apple. [His] work has grown richer....