5/10/2023 0 Comments The book push by sapphire![]() ![]() ![]() As her language skills improve, she finds sustenance in writing poetry, in friendships and in support groups-one for ""insect"" survivors and one for HIV-positive teens. Under her angelic mentorship, Precious, who has never before experienced real nurturing, learns to voice her long suppressed feelings in a journal. ![]() So ugly, worth nuffin."") Referred to a pilot program by an unusually solicitous principal, Precious comes under the experimental pedagogy of a lesbian miracle worker named, implausibly enough, Blue Rain. (Precious had her first daughter at 12, named Little Mongo, ""short for Mongoloid Down Sinder, which is what she is sometimes what I feel I is. Obese, dark-skinned, HIV-positive, bullied by her sexually abusive mother, Clareece, Precious Jones is, at the novel's outset, pregnant for the second time with her father's child. With this much anticipated first novel, told from the point of view of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, Sapphire (American Dreams), a writer affiliated with the Nuyorican poets, charts the psychic damage of the most ghettoized of inner-city inhabitants. ![]()
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