Push

Push by Sapphire. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679446262.

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girls horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her fathers 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.