Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)

Type

Book

Authors

Sapphire

ISBN 10

0307474844

ISBN 13

9780307474841

Tags

Abuse, Teen Pregnancy, Urban

Abstract

Precious Jones, raped by her father and battered by her mother, meets a determined and radical teacher who encourages Precious to pursue her education and write about her life.

Description

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

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