Push : a novel /

Push

a novel
by Sapphire
Book - 2009

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sapphire, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, p2009.
Subjects:
African Americans > Fiction.
Teenage mothers > Fiction.
African American girls > Fiction.
Child abuse > Fiction.
Literacy > Fiction.
Incest > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.

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