Precious Jones is obese, HIV-positive and living in a physically and sexually abusive household. At sixteen, she’s pregnant by her father—again. Aside from heartache, she has nothing but a fierce determination to break free of her parents and change her life. She starts by enrolling in a GED program, where she meets the tireless Blue Rain. Much more than a literacy teacher, Miss Rain shows Precious how to read and write, but also encourages her to keep a journal—which becomes the vehicle readers have to experience Precious' horrendous beginnings and miraculous transformation. An urban classic, Push is intense, heartbreaking and frightening—a remarkable story that will continue to haunt and inspire you long after you’ve put it down.
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