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Clareece 'Precious' Jones is an obese and impoverished African American teenager, systematically abused emotionally and physically by her mother and repeatedly raped by her mother's boyfriend. Pregnant by him for a second time, she is expelled from school, and recommended to attend 'Each One Teach One', an alternative education centre where she meets an inspiring teacher who prods her into seeing that there could be hope for a better life.

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PRECIOUS (full title Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire) is a harrowing account of one of the unheard voices of child abuse – a 16-year-old girl living in Harlem – and the journey of self-discovery that leads her out of the darkness.more