Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 8/20/2010 + 174 more book reviews

The movie "Precious" was great, but it can never beat the tone and heartbreak set forth by the author in this book from which the movie was made. Precious is an illiterate 16-year-old girl who lives in Harlem, and is pregnant for the second time by her father. The abuse that this girl, who no one really ever acknowledges, is so bad that only when Precious meets a new teacher with some radical new ways of teaching and helping her, does she see some hope for her and her children's futures.

The author, Sapphire, makes the abuse so real that I cringed and cried reading this book. Some parts are offensive in nature and language, but it's what really happens to some people every day that shouldn't happen at all. I think it's a must-read.

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