Push

Title: Push
Author: Sapphire
Fiction: 1697458
ISBN: 9780593314609
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Anniversary
Number of Pages: 240
Section: Fiction | African American & Black | Urban & Street Lit
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.

"Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling."--The New York Times Book Review

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been 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 radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.