Push
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Sapphire.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; Pregnant schoolgirls -- Fiction; African American girls -- Fiction; Child abuse -- Fiction; Literacy -- Fiction; Incest -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.