has ALL you need!

A community for book lovers to create their own bookshelves, share and explore books.

Google Preview

• .

  • I'm Not Surprised by Oprah's Endorsement but Tyler Perry's?

  • The book turned Sundance Film Favorite, is ideally and in essence a story that offers a good message about overcoming obstacles and rising above our circumstances and situations to achieve our goals and to become more than we're expected to be. However, you have to be able to stomach the narrators ... Continue

    The book turned Sundance Film Favorite, is ideally and in essence a story that offers a good message about overcoming obstacles and rising above our circumstances and situations to achieve our goals and to become more than we're expected to be. However, you have to be able to stomach the narrators awful grammar and spelling (Precious, the protagonist/narrator, is a 16-going-on-17 year-old who is illiterate amongst other things) in addition to the enumerable accounts of familial abuse of all sorts-physical, sexual, emotional, mental-at the hands of the narrator's biological parents.

    It's just the kind of story that Oprah loves to shove in our faces and spend two episodes of her talk show (3 days on her radio broadcast) discussing with Gail and a handful of other individuals whose opinions only matter to Oprah's flock of housewife and non hetero male following.

    I digress.

    Like I said the message of the book is a good one that needs to be told, I'm just not sure I like the soap box the author stood on to shout it.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Nette said on Oct 24, 2009 about the Audio Cassette edition| Add your feedback

• .

  • 

  • This kid had it rough I can't imagine being in his shoes. How can all kinds of bad stuff only occur to one person, it doesn't seem fair.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― SheReads said on Mar 5, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

• longobstaclesovercomingpoeticabuseYALSA BBYA 2003foster carefoster childrenrealistic fictionteens
• See all (15)