141 pages
English language
Published March 25, 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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
Subjects
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Pregnant schoolgirls -- Fiction
- African American girls -- Fiction
- Child abuse -- Fiction
- Literacy -- Fiction
- Incest -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction