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PUSH
By: . Sapphire

Vintage
October 1998
On Sale: October 19, 1998
Featuring: Precious Jones
250 pages
ISBN: 0679766758
EAN: 9780679766759
Paperback
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Fiction | Multicultural African-American

Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. 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.