Push gifts Many of us experience adversity

Many of us experience adversity and trauma during childhood that has lasting impact on our physical and emotional health

Mack receives a suspicious note

Through the lives of these two women

Shelby knows something else: she needs to go back to Bad Luck

"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page

Push gifts Many of us experience adversityAn electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set