Just send us an email and we'll put the best up on the site.A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. You can read more book reviews or buy Precious by Sapphire at.

You can read more book reviews or buy Precious by Sapphire at .uk Amazon currently charges £2.99 for standard delivery for orders under £20, over which delivery is free. I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.įor a real life story of girls abused by men with the connivance of their mother we can recommend How Could She? by Dana Fowley. It's a book I'll reread and probably get more from it the next time round too. I doubt that I'll see the film – I'm not a great film watcher – but this is a story which I would not like to have missed. There's power in the story – sometimes I cried and sometimes I laughed out loud, but I never stopped rooting for this woman and for the friends whom she made in the alternative education programme. She's overweight and under-privileged but there's no doubting that Precious is, quite simply, awesome. I read this book in one sitting, desperate to find out what happened to Precious. She wants to make a better life for her son and escape the abusive family life. Despite everything – and there really isn't a lot going for Precious – she really does want to learn to read and write and to get an education. The book is Precious' diary and she tells her story in her own words (Little Mongo has Down Sinder) and she is completely frank about what has happened to her and even about her guilt over certain aspects of her relationship with her father. Precious really wants to learn and the book is the story of her journey from illiteracy to maturity. When her second pregnancy becomes obvious she's expelled from school and joins an alternative education programme. With unconscious irony Precious calls her Little Mongo and leaves her to live with her grandmother. Her first child was a girl and she was born with Down's Syndrome. Precious Jones is a sixteen year old black girl from Harlem – well she's never actually been out of Harlem – and when we meet her she's pregnant by her own father for the second time. Precious did that and if the book is anything to go by then all the hype about the film might just be right. Normally I don't go for film tie-in books, but just occasionally you find something which pulls you up short and makes you think. Summary: A film tie-in but a powerful book which stays with you long after you turn the last page.

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