Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published April 29, 1997 by Vintage.
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: 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 highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time
This book is beautifully written. Good character development, great poetry/prose. I did think the movie and the hype around it smacked of racism and classism. That's not from the book.
