NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Includes a Reading Group GuidePrecious 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.
""You feel you've witnessed nothing less than the birth of a soul."" —Entertainment Weekly
""Affecting and impassioned. . . . Sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling."" —The New York Times Book Review
""A fascinating novel that may well find a place in the African-American literary canon. . . . With a fresh new voice that echoes the streets, Sapphire's work is sure to win as many hearts as it disturbs minds."" —Philadelphia Inquirer
""A horrific, hope-filled story [that is] brilliant, blunt, merciless."" —Newsday
""Brutal, redemptive. . . . You just can't take your eyes off Precious Jones."" —Newsweek
""A stunningly frank effort that marks the emergence of an immensely promising writer."" —Los Angeles Times Book Review
""[Sapphire] writes with a poet's ear for rhythms, in a voice that pushes her story relentlessly into your mind."" —Interview
""Push . . . develops so richly and fearlessly that one cannon resist its power."" —Elle
""Precious's story, told through her own unique style and spelling, is a major achievement. It documents a remarkable resilience of spirit."" —Boston Globe
""To read the story [is] magic. . . . [It is] paint-peelingly profane and thoroughly real."" --Washington Post
