Push
a novel
by Sapphire, Tayari Jones, Sapphire, and Sapphire, Lofton, Ramona
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A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
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Child abuse, Pregnant schoolgirls, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Incest, African American girls, African Americans, Teenage mothers, Literacy, Fiction, coming of age, African americans, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, african american, urban, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-05-31, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, african american & black, urban & street lit, Fiction, family life, general, collectionID:EanesChallenge, collectionID:AlpineChallenge, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, collectionID:bannedbooks, African americans--fiction, Teenage mothers--fiction, African american girls--fiction, Child abuse--fiction, Literacy--fiction, Incest--fiction, Ps3569.a63 p87 2009, 813/.54Places
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Push: a novel
1996, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
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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
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