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The short story Truth Comes Slowly recounts an experience with lethal gun violence, told from the alternating points of view of a young boy and his mother. The story is dramatically illustrated with four linoleum cut images by Mary Proenza, in which she focuses not only on Tervalon’s specific written imagery but also on experiences of her own, including the first print in the book of a street in San Francisco, where the story is set, based on a painting she did on location while living in the city.

Jervey Tervalon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and moved with his family in the 1960s to the Jefferson Park/Crenshaw area of Los Angeles, California, the setting of much of his fiction. He has published five novels including the award-winning Understand This and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground.  He edited A Geography of Rage on the 1994 uprising against police abuse, coedited the Cocaine Chronicles, and writes an ongoing series of memoir vignettes in the LA Review of Books. He is cofounder and literary director of Pasadena LitFest, the 2nd largest literary festival in California and the most diverse. and teaches fiction writing at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara.  

Mary Proenza’s is a visual artist and writer. Her art reviews have been published in Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail, and her paintings appear on book covers from John Daniel & Co. and CD covers from CMH and Arhoolie. One of her current projects is a graphic memoir. Proenza is an art professor at Marymount University, Arlington, VA, where she also directs Barry Gallery.

This project was funded by an Arts Project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This book was printed from hand-set Bembo type on Flurry cotton paper with a Vandercook Universal III press in an edition of 100 copies (25 hard cover casebound, 75 soft folded paper cover).

Hard cover: $475
Soft cover: $250
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