Sapphire, 1950-

Push : a novel Title on cover : Precious : based on the novel Push Precious. by Sapphire. - New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2009] - 139 p. ; 21 cm.

"Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover.

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--Fiction.
Incest--Fiction.
Pregnant teenagers--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
African American girls--Fiction.
African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.


Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PS3569.A63 / P74 2009

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