Push : a novel / by Sapphire.

9780679446262
0679446265

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2009, c1996.

English

139, [38] p. ; 20 cm.

PS3569.A63 P87 2009

813/.54

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.

A Borzoi book.

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