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A self-portrait of a black teenage girl named Precious, whose father rapes her and whose mother batters her. When she becomes pregnant with a second child by her father, she meets a determined and radical teacher, who bullies, cajoles and inspires Precious to learn to read

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sapphire, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021
Edition:Second Vintage Contemporaries edition ; 25th anniversary edition
Subjects:
African American girls > Fiction
African Americans > Fiction
Child abuse > Fiction
Incest > Fiction
Literacy > Fiction
Teenage mothers > Fiction
African American girls
African Americans
Child abuse
Incest
Literacy
Teenage mothers
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
New York (State) > New York > Harlem
Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Fiction

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Call Number: PS3569.A63 P87 2021

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