Push by Sapphire [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1996

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1996] ALFRED A KNOPF

 Hardcover w/ dust jacket in excellent condition.  Like new.   Dust jacket now housed in a new archival quality brodart jacket protector.  

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: 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. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time.