Push

I just finished reading the novel Push by Sapphire. It's a short book, one that I started last night and finished today. What it lacks in pages in more than makes up for. This is the story of Ms. Precious Jones. It is a story so horrifying and heroic that you can't turn away. I want you all to read this story. I must caution you, though, that it is absolutely brutal and relentless. Push reads like a work of poetic nonfiction, but it is a fictional account of a forgotten girl saved by her GED teacher and alternative school. After working in two GED programs, one of which was at an alternative high school, I know how so many young people are discarded. But NOTHING I could imagine compares to the struggles Ms. Precious Jones endures.