Chris L. Terry lives in Chicago where he teaches writing and theatre to juvenile inmates. Growing up in Richmond, VA, he spent his teens and early twenties touring the world in a punk band. He has a Fiction Writing MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Zero Fade is his first novel. Excerpts have appeared in Chicago Reader, Curbside Splendor, Hair Trigger, and Trilling Magazine. His website is ChrisLTerry.com.
A YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION BFYA NOMINEE AN IN THE
MARGINS LIST SELECTION ONE OF SLATE.COM'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2013!
ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST TEEN BOOKS OF 2013! Meet Kevin Phifer.
He's in seventh grade, with a dad who's been gone for 10 years, a
mom who won't let him get a fade, and a neighborhood bully who
won't leave him alone. It's 1994 in Richmond, Va., and Kevin's the
hero of Chris L. Terry's funny, well-observed young adult novel. I
loved Zero Fade for its great period detail and its honesty about
its main character's emotions--including his confusion and concern
about an uncle who's coming out to his family.
-- Dan Kois, Slate Kevin Phifer, 13, a black seventh-grader in
1990s Richmond, Va., and hero of this sparkling debut, belongs in
the front ranks of fiction's hormone-addled, angst-ridden
adolescents, from Holden Caulfield to the teenage Harry Potter
[...] Original, hilarious, thought-provoking and wicked smart: not
to be missed.
-- Kirkus Reviews Zero Fade is a damn fine read with a resounding
message that never preaches, but instead talks to you across the
table like a friend and ally. Highly recommended. Chris L. Terry is
an author to keep an eye on.
-- Razorcake Zero Fade is a funny and insightful coming of age
story, which takes place in the 1990s hip-hop era, [and] is a
standout story in children's literature, in which many more black
male protagonists are needed.
-- Richmond Times Dispatch Zero Fade is wise and wise-assed,
hilarious and subtle, knowing and searching. We need writers like
Chris Terry, unafraid to plumb the complexities and absurdities of
race and identity with grace and funk.
-- Adam Mansbach, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rage is
Back and GO
THE F**K TO SLEEP Chris Terry is a wise and hilarious writer. He
has bestowed Kevin, the hero of Zero Fade, with an especially acute
case of teenage angst, and the results are sweet, painful and very
recognizable to anyone who has survived seventh grade. This is a
wonderful book.
-- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife With
sharp storytelling sagacity and attention to detail, Mr. Terry
masterfully captures the lingo and tackles the issues of growing up
hip-hop in the early '90s. He's fired up the Flux Capacitor and
brought me back to a childhood of asymmetrical haircuts, terms and
viewpoints that have since become taboo and other idiosyncratic
stuff that speaks to modern society's invisible men: the black,
hip-hop kids of Generation X.
-- J-Zone, author of Root for the Villain: Rap, Bulls**t, and a
Celebration of Failure Reading Chris Terry's Zero Fade offered me a
glimpse into a cultural experience that isn't mine, but that I
could recognize immediately. Vernacular as world. On the surface,
it's just language. But this novel isn't surface. The characters
speak in rhythms that reveal emotions not identifiable by just
words, but I'll name them nonetheless: humor, sadness, confusion,
joy, revelation. It's all here in Terry's first novel, a novel that
is practically carbonated, how it sparkles and burns.
-- Lindsay Hunter, author of Daddy'sand Don't Kiss Me The fictional
story, set in Richmond's North Side in 1994, tells the tale of
seventh-grader Kevin Phifer and his trials and tribulations [in a]
slyly comical and nuanced take on teenage angst.
-- Style Weekly There is something magical in the way that [Chris
L.] Terry captures Kevin's world. Kevin is at once vulgar and
sweetly innocent, and his voice on the page is electric, as flowing
and rhythmic as his favorite Biggie Smalls songs [...] Kevin's
voice, though unique and rife with individual problems, is the
voice of anyone who has ever been thirteen.
-- Chicago Literati Zero Fade by Chris L. Terry is a personal
favorite and one of the best books for younger teens I've read in a
long time. The novel is written at a breakneck speed [filled with]
with hilarious gems, such as, "Tyrell's crew had been held back so
many times that they were bigger than the teachers."
-- Any Cheney, Reaching Reluctant Readers
A YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION BFYA NOMINEE AN IN THE
MARGINS LIST SELECTION ONE OF SLATE.COM'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2013!
ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST TEEN BOOKS OF 2013! Meet Kevin Phifer.
He's in seventh grade, with a dad who's been gone for 10 years, a
mom who won't let him get a fade, and a neighborhood bully who
won't leave him alone. It's 1994 in Richmond, Va., and Kevin's the
hero of Chris L. Terry's funny, well-observed young adult novel. I
loved Zero Fade for its great period detail and its honesty about
its main character's emotions--including his confusion and concern
about an uncle who's coming out to his family.
-- Dan Kois, Slate Kevin Phifer, 13, a black seventh-grader in
1990s Richmond, Va., and hero of this sparkling debut, belongs in
the front ranks of fiction's hormone-addled, angst-ridden
adolescents, from Holden Caulfield to the teenage Harry Potter
[...] Original, hilarious, thought-provoking and wicked smart: not
to be missed.
-- Kirkus Reviews Zero Fade is a damn fine read with a resounding
message that never preaches, but instead talks to you across the
table like a friend and ally. Highly recommended. Chris L. Terry is
an author to keep an eye on.
-- Razorcake Zero Fade is a funny and insightful coming of age
story, which takes place in the 1990s hip-hop era, [and] is a
standout story in children's literature, in which many more black
male protagonists are needed.
-- Richmond Times Dispatch Zero Fade is wise and wise-assed,
hilarious and subtle, knowing and searching. We need writers like
Chris Terry, unafraid to plumb the complexities and absurdities of
race and identity with grace and funk.
-- Adam Mansbach, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rage is
Back and GO
THE F**K TO SLEEP Chris Terry is a wise and hilarious writer. He
has bestowed Kevin, the hero of Zero Fade, with an especially acute
case of teenage angst, and the results are sweet, painful and very
recognizable to anyone who has survived seventh grade. This is a
wonderful book.
-- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife With
sharp storytelling sagacity and attention to detail, Mr. Terry
masterfully captures the lingo and tackles the issues of growing up
hip-hop in the early '90s. He's fired up the Flux Capacitor and
brought me back to a childhood of asymmetrical haircuts, terms and
viewpoints that have since become taboo and other idiosyncratic
stuff that speaks to modern society's invisible men: the black,
hip-hop kids of Generation X.
-- J-Zone, author of Root for the Villain: Rap, Bulls**t, and a
Celebration of Failure Reading Chris Terry's Zero Fade offered me a
glimpse into a cultural experience that isn't mine, but that I
could recognize immediately. Vernacular as world. On the surface,
it's just language. But this novel isn't surface. The characters
speak in rhythms that reveal emotions not identifiable by just
words, but I'll name them nonetheless: humor, sadness, confusion,
joy, revelation. It's all here in Terry's first novel, a novel that
is practically carbonated, how it sparkles and burns.
-- Lindsay Hunter, author of Daddy'sand Don't Kiss Me The fictional
story, set in Richmond's North Side in 1994, tells the tale of
seventh-grader Kevin Phifer and his trials and tribulations [in a]
slyly comical and nuanced take on teenage angst.
-- Style Weekly There is something magical in the way that [Chris
L.] Terry captures Kevin's world. Kevin is at once vulgar and
sweetly innocent, and his voice on the page is electric, as flowing
and rhythmic as his favorite Biggie Smalls songs [...] Kevin's
voice, though unique and rife with individual problems, is the
voice of anyone who has ever been thirteen.
-- Chicago Literati Zero Fade by Chris L. Terry is a personal
favorite and one of the best books for younger teens I've read in a
long time. The novel is written at a breakneck speed [filled with]
with hilarious gems, such as, "Tyrell's crew had been held back so
many times that they were bigger than the teachers."
-- Any Cheney, Reaching Reluctant Readers
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