Push
By (author): "Sapphire"
Publish Date:
June 11th 1996
ISBN0679766758
ISBN139780679766759
AsinPush
CharactersClaireece Precious Jones, Blue Rain
Original titlePush
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time.