5/10/2023 0 Comments Push book precious![]() Given these circumstances, it's no surprise that Precious often feels as if her mind has become a television set, playing and replaying videos that offer her a brief respite from the bleak realities of her daily life. Not much later, she learns that her father has infected her with H.I.V. A week after her second child, Abdul, is born, Precious finds herself out on the streets of Harlem, without a place to live. Little Mongo, Precious's first child, to whom she gave birth at the age of 12, turns out to have Down's syndrome and is quickly taken away from her. ![]() ![]() It's hard to imagine how things could get much worse, but in the course of "Push," Sapphire throws a lot more misfortune Precious's way. She, too, sexually abuses Precious, and treats her as a maidservant around the house. Her mother has not only allowed these rapes to occur, but also beats Precious for stealing her man. Like Celie in "The Color Purple," the heroine of "Push" is the survivor of a brutal childhood and youth at the age of 16, Claireece or "Precious" as she calls herself, has already had two children by the man she knows as her father. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" and mix it up with the feminist sentimentality and anger of Alice Walker's "Color Purple"? The answer is "Push," a much-talked-about first novel by a poet named Sapphire, a novel that manages to be disturbing, affecting and manipulative all at the same time. What do you get if you borrow the notion of an idiosyncratic teen-age narrator from J. ![]()
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