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Sapphire,
1950-
Push :
a novel /
by Sapphire.
1st ed.
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
1996.
141 p. ;
20 cm.
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.
19990110.
African Americans
Fiction.
Teenage mothers
Fiction.
African American girls
Fiction.
Child abuse
Fiction.
Literacy
Fiction.
Incest
Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y)
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
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