num_pages: 192
description: An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.
language: English
title: Push
titlecomplete: Push
characters: Blue Rain, Claireece Precious Jones
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Abuse, Young Adult, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 53615
places: New York (State), Harlem, New York City, New York
series: Precious
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf