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
***Rate this a 3/5. This is a shocking and sad novel in that it is not fiction, but a true story. It is culture shock to anyone in white suburbs without a realization that this lifestyle exists. Sad and tragic, but a story that needed to be told.
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