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Push

by Sapphire · 1996

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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.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisabuseabuseMore like thisLess of thisdiversitydiversityMore like thisLess of thisfeminismfeminismMore like thisLess of thismoviesmoviesMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisNew YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Mood
disturbingdisturbingMore like thisLess of this
Subject
educationeducationMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adultadult
Length
short · 177 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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