false <![CDATA[Push: A Novel]]> 71332 17 Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer <i>Sapphire</i>. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it. 69081 book 29 4 1997 Push: A Novel total:2904|5:1049|4:1020|3:614|2:147|1:74| 2904 11535 4974 855 4 15 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Tue Nov 20 18:36:09 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 19:18:52 -0800 2007 New Yorker around the time of its 1997 publication, when I was a senior in high school. Reading the New Yorker piece effectively shattered my skull, bludgeoning my brain into a tenderized and confused lump of quaking grey gristle.

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Liza Centeio



This amazing novel I most recently read is called Push by Sapphire. Reading this novel you learn that everyone takes there time to adapt to the world and there is so much more to a person than just what they appear to be.
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PUSH is such an easy read but so hard to get through without showing some human emotions. I found myself crying after eve...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 14:23:10 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 14:23:27 -0800 2008
Precious Jones tries to succeed without depending on her mother. She’s 16 y...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 20 23:08:43 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 23:08:43 -0800 2009
A book that convincingly portrays the journey from illiteracy to literacy and carries off story-within-story structure successfully. (extra points for challenging narrative structure.)

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This take-no-prisoners novel reads like an autobiography, yet it’s mercifully fiction. Sad that there are some people out there like Precious Jones, but hopefully not very many. Still, you have to laugh at some comments like th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 11 15:41:10 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 15:41:49 -0800 2009
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