Sapphire, 1950-

Precious : based on the novel Push / Push. by Sapphire. - New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, c1996. - 139 p. ; 20 cm.

Cover title. "Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover.

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.

ISBN: 9780307474841 (tr. pbk.) 0307474844 (tr. pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Incest--Fiction.
Teenage pregnancy--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
African American girls--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Sexual abuse victims--Fiction.
Child abuse--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Inner cities--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.