Push

By Tayari Jones, Sapphire

Subjects: New york (n.y.), fiction, Domestic fiction, Literacy, Child abuse--fiction, African american girls, Teenage mothers--fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, collectionID:bannedbooks, African American girls, Fiction, family life, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, Incest, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-05-31, African Americans, Teenage mothers, Incest--fiction, 813/.54, Child abuse, African american girls--fiction, collectionID:EanesChallenge, New York Times bestseller, Bildungsromans, Fiction, african american, urban, African americans--fiction, collectionID:AlpineChallenge, Literacy--fiction, Fiction, african american & black, urban & street lit, Ps3569.a63 p87 2009, African americans, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Pregnant schoolgirls, African americans

Description: 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