![]() Set nearly 100 years earlier than Push, Alice Walker’s novel unfolds through the perspective of Celie, who is also repeatedly raped and impregnated by her father. Push resembles a modern-day The Color Purple, which Precious engages with as she learns how to read. In an alternative education program, Precious meets other women who have been victimized and forced into invisibility, developing a new family made up of people who see her, encourage her, and show her love for the first time in her life. Precious has always felt invisible, wearing her large body and attitude as armor while the education, social work, and justice systems fail to teach and protect her. The child is her second, conceived by her father after a lifetime of rape, molestation, and abuse. Push is narrated by Precious, a Black teenager whose school expels her at the age of 16 because she is pregnant. Sapphire continued the story with a 2011 sequel called The Kid, which focuses on Abdul, Precious’s son. She published her first novel, Push, in 1996 in 2009 it was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Precious. ![]() Sapphire is the pen name of author Ramona Lofton. ![]()
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