About the Book

In an electrifying novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father's child, speaks. In a voice that shakes us by its language, its story, and its unflinching honesty, Precious Jones records her journey up from Harlem's lowest depths... For Precious, miraculously, hope appears and the world begins to open up when a courageous black woman - a teacher hellbent to teach - bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary: to discover the truth of her life. Day after day they go over the pages, translating the illiterate but developing language of Precious' journals. The learning process itself, as vividly revealed as the most brutal aspects of Precious' daily existence, is the heartbeat of a novel that will disturb, galvanize, and stay in the mind.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 192 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group (Oct. 31st, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0679446265

ISBN-13: 9780679446262

Dimensions: 5.31 x 7.82 x 0.86 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.65 lbs

• Categories: Contemporary African American Women Fiction