TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Push :a novel /
DA  - 2009, c1996.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Sapphire,
CN  - PS3569.A63
CN  - PS3569.A63
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf :
PB  - Distributed by Random House,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2009, c1996.
N1  - A Borzoi book.
ID  - 338257
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Teenage mothers
KW  - African American girls
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Incest
SN  - 9780679446262
SN  - 0679446265
TI  - Push :a novel /
ER  -