![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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