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Sapphire

Jun 2021 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

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 by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

Ratings and reviews

It's definitely a great book, but it's too strong, I'm 18 years old and I don't think a younger person or someone without enough emotional maturity should read it in any way, neither if you are a person who is going through a very bad moment in his life or in a depressive relapse, I read this book in a single day and the last 10 to 20 pages broke me and made me cry, It's painful to accept, but we all know that precious's life is a scenario that many girls are living now and they may not have a Mrs. Rain for them.

READ this in high school real eye opener in the world knowing someone next to you really can be going through far worser than you and needing to appreciate all blessings🙏🙏🙏🙏

just I wanted! thanks!

About the author

Sapphire is the author of two books of poetry, American Dreams and Black Wings & Blind Angels, and the New York Times bestselling novel The Kid. She lives and works in New York City.