![]() ![]() As her language skills improve, she finds sustenance in writing poetry, in friendships and in support groups-one for ""insect"" survivors and one for HIV-positive teens. Under her angelic mentorship, Precious, who has never before experienced real nurturing, learns to voice her long suppressed feelings in a journal. ![]() So ugly, worth nuffin."") Referred to a pilot program by an unusually solicitous principal, Precious comes under the experimental pedagogy of a lesbian miracle worker named, implausibly enough, Blue Rain. (Precious had her first daughter at 12, named Little Mongo, ""short for Mongoloid Down Sinder, which is what she is sometimes what I feel I is. Obese, dark-skinned, HIV-positive, bullied by her sexually abusive mother, Clareece, Precious Jones is, at the novel's outset, pregnant for the second time with her father's child. ![]() With this much anticipated first novel, told from the point of view of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, Sapphire (American Dreams), a writer affiliated with the Nuyorican poets, charts the psychic damage of the most ghettoized of inner-city inhabitants. ![]()
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