Named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996, Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction. The authors second book and first novel, basis for the Oscar-winning 2009 film. Push won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. 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. Precious 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. READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new. Sapphire wrote the novel Push (renamed Precious) in a fractured ghetto patois that grew out of the authors experiences as a remedial reading teacher.

This 25th anniversary edition features a preface by Tayari Jones and an afterword by Sapphire which features extensive discourse about the film. A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.

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