Push
Book description
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…
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A lot of people don’t know that the movie Precious is based off of a novel. Sure... It doesn’t have any ghouls, monsters, descriptive sentences filled with gore and macabre, but if you were like me, and decided to read the book after watching the film…. This movie goes down as probably one of the scariest novels of all time…like V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic scary. It’s hard reading novels that involve the abuse of children, but this book literally had me speechless and horrified like the first time I watched an episode of, My 500 Pound Life…
From Krystale's list on horror that were adapted into film to haunt you.
A disturbing story of abuse, neglect, and poverty, yet the reader comes away with a sense of hope from the resilience of the main character.
Precious Jones, an obese, illiterate sixteen-year-old, is sexually and physically abused by both her mother and her father. After Precious becomes pregnant with a second baby by her father, she meets a teacher that drastically changes her life. Precious not only learns how to read and write, but more importantly, she begins on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it…
From Samuel's list on marginalized and outsider characters.
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