Push

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  • Author: Sapphire
    Contributor:

    Turpin, Bahni

    Summary:

    An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

    Genre: Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction
    Original Publisher: [S.I.] , Books on Tape
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781415967195

    ,

    1415967199

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DC Contributor

Turpin, Bahni

Abstract

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

Genre
Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Publisher (Source)

[S.I.]

Books on Tape

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