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Push

by Sapphire
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Alfred A. Knopf : | Distributed by Random House, (New York :) Physical details: 141, [38] p. ; 20 cm. ISBN:0679446265.
Subject(s): Child abuse -- Fiction. | Incest -- Fiction. | Pregnant schoolgirls -- Fiction. | Literacy -- Fiction. | Afro-American girls -- Fiction. | Afro-Americans -- Fiction. -- New York (State) -- New York | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. | Domestic fiction.
Year: 1996
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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.

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