- Child abuse, Pregnant schoolgirls, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans
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
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, grave, contemporary and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc, Editions de l'Olivier, Anagrama
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9781435242241
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 36 have read it and 1,021 want to.
“I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver.”
Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950), better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Room 201082% alikeBoth earnest, contemporary, grave.
Woman at Point Zero 198382% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
Sold 200681% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
The trauma cleaner 201778% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
Shout 201976% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Punching the Air 202075% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
What My Bones Know 202274% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Lucky 199974% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Tyrannosaur 201181% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, contemporary.
Black Box Diaries 202480% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, contemporary.