Push

By Tayari Jones, Sapphire

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

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