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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
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Sapphire
46 books633 followersSapphire the Author.
Sapphire is the author of Push, American Dreams, The Kid, and Black Wings & Blind Angels.
Push: A novel, 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. 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. Push was adapted into the Oscar winning film, Precious.
Sapphire’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb. In February of 2007 Arizona State University presented PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire. Sapphire's poetry has appeared in the following anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent. Sapphire’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe.
An excerpt from Sapphire's novel in progress, "The Harlem Trilogy," and a new poem, "Poem Found in Scientific American," along with an online interview can be found in the January 2024 issue of Torch Literary Arts:
https://www.torchliteraryarts.org/pos...
For more information, visit:
https://linktr.ee/sapphiretheauthor
Sapphire is the author of Push, American Dreams, The Kid, and Black Wings & Blind Angels.
Push: A novel, 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. 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. Push was adapted into the Oscar winning film, Precious.
Sapphire’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb. In February of 2007 Arizona State University presented PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire. Sapphire's poetry has appeared in the following anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent. Sapphire’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe.
An excerpt from Sapphire's novel in progress, "The Harlem Trilogy," and a new poem, "Poem Found in Scientific American," along with an online interview can be found in the January 2024 issue of Torch Literary Arts:
https://www.torchliteraryarts.org/pos...
For more information, visit:
https://linktr.ee/sapphiretheauthor
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March 25, 2026
That was very hard to listen to… very hard. I could’ve done without those horrid description of Precious being raped and abused by her sick parents. The audiobook made the story seem so much more real. The author did a good job capturing Precious being illiterate.
Precious was a victim of circumstance- by having the fucked up parents she had. She didn’t deserve any of what she experienced. I wanted to cry when she was given an opportunity to get the education she truly deserved. To find a community where she felt safe and wasn’t bullied for her lack of education or appearance. It seems there’s definitely intergenerational trauma in the family as it is clear that Precious parents (very sick people) were very uneducated.
Precious will be a character I’ll think about from time to time… wondering how she turned out…
Precious was a victim of circumstance- by having the fucked up parents she had. She didn’t deserve any of what she experienced. I wanted to cry when she was given an opportunity to get the education she truly deserved. To find a community where she felt safe and wasn’t bullied for her lack of education or appearance. It seems there’s definitely intergenerational trauma in the family as it is clear that Precious parents (very sick people) were very uneducated.
Precious will be a character I’ll think about from time to time… wondering how she turned out…
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