num_pages: 177
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.
language: English
title: Push
titlecomplete: Push
characters: Claireece Precious Jones, Blue Rain
genres: Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Abuse, Novels, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, African American, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 53592
places: Harlem, New York City, New York, New York (State)
series: Precious
publisher: Vintage