Book
3 of 3 Copies Available
- EASTWOOD: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Teen Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Teen Collection
Push : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION SAPP TEEN (EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
Second Vintage Contemporaries edition ; 25th anniversary edition.
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
Physical Description
xv, 217 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
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.
Notes
"With a new preface by Tayari Jones and a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
Subjects
- African American girls > Fiction.
- African American teenage girls > Fiction.
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
- Teenage mothers > Fiction.
- Pregnant teenagers > Fiction.
- Sexually abused children > Fiction.
- Abused children > Fiction.
- Child abuse > Fiction.
- Illiterate persons > Fiction.
- Rape victims > Fiction.
- Incest > Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.