Without proper funding and no source of income, welfare is the only short term solution available in order to keep her baby healthy. Obstacles arise yet again as her pregnancy comes to an end and Precious has her second child. Creating lasting relationships, she begins to realize that with the right “Push” she could turn her life around for the better. In secret, Precious embarks in a long journey that helps her to achieve a sense of belonging as an individual, as she fits in at the new school.
All of the girls are required to keep a journal and write whatever comes to their mind even of they can’t spell the words correctly. Rain, leads a group of girls similar to Precious’ situation using the power of writing.
Due to her pregnancy, she is removed by the counselor from her school, but given a second chance at an alternative school: “Each One, Teach One.” Precious receives no support from her mother, in fact pure denial, who is barely getting by on welfare, yet her curiosity of what may come from a new school leads her to enroll.Īt the new school, a passionate young teacher, Ms. While illiterate, Precious excels at math and her willingness to learn at Harlem’s Junior High has not gone unnoticed. Continually made-fun of and physically abused by her mother, Precious has grown to believe that she is a worthless human being capable of nothing. Raped by her father, Precious is carrying her second child and has no one to console her as she is neglected at home by her jealous and twisted mother. Named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996, Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction.The novel, Push by Sapphire, is interpreted through the eye’s of Claireece “Precious” Jones, an overweight, illiterate, 16 year old living in a Harlem apartment in 1987. Push won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time. Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem’s casualties. This 25th anniversary edition features a preface by Tayari Jones and an afterword by Sapphire which features extensive discourse about the film. A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.
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