Precious is neither a rags to riches story nor is it a relentlessly bleak portrait of a miserable life. Blue Rain, and a cohort of other tough-talking low-income girls. Here, she meets the encouraging and dedicated teacher Ms. After Precious is removed from school she starts studying at an alternative program called Each One Teach One.
Precious is also obese, and late in the film learns that she’s HIV positive. She lives with her abusive (emotionally, sexually, and physically) mother Mary (Mo’Nique). Sapphire asserts that Precious is not about specific student, but rather an amalgam of many young women.Ĭlaireece Precious Jones (Sidibe) is 16-years-old, illiterate, pregnant by her father for the second time and expelled from junior high. The book and the film are based on the experiences of African American poet and novelist Sapphire when she worked as a teacher in Harlem during the ’80s. Precious is now available on DVD and includes interviews with Sapphire, director Lee Daniels and executive producers Oprah and Tyler Perry. Precious has fixed its place as one of the most important films of 2009 due in large part to performances by leads Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique. Named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996, Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction.If you’ve missed the phenomenon that is Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, you’ve been living in a media vacuum for the past six months. Push won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. 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. 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.
This 25th anniversary edition features a preface by Tayari Jones and an afterword by Sapphire which features extensive discourse about the film. 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 ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.
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