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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.
In an electrifying novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father's child, speaks. In a voice that shakes us by its language, its story, and its unflinching honesty, Precious Jones records her journey up from Harlem's lowest depths...
For Precious, miraculously, hope appears and the world begins to open up when a courageous black woman - a teacher hellbent to teach - bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary: to discover the truth of her life.
Day after day they go over the pages, translating the illiterate but developing language of Precious' journals. The learning process itself, as vividly revealed as the most brutal aspects of Precious' daily existence, is the heartbeat of a novel that will disturb, galvanize, and stay in the mind.
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Incest, Child abuse, African American girls, African American teenage mothers, African Americans, Teenage mothers, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, African-Americans, Child abuse victims, African-American teenage mothers, Incest victims' mothers, Street life, African American, Single African-American mothers, Urban, Sixteen-year-old girls, Incest victims' families, Teacher-student relationships, Literacy, Domestic fiction, Pregnant teenagers, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Teenage pregnancy, Fiction, general, African americans, fictionShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
October 20, 2009, Vintage
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"I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver."
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This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.
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