Precious - A Woman's Strength

Sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, a woman in body and a girl at heart, is expecting her second child. She is Black, poor, obese, illiterate, and very alone. Raped by her father, who is also the father of her two children, and abused by her mother, who constantly finds new ways to exploit her daughter on various levels, Precious loses her last connection to reality when she is expelled from school. Alone on the streets of Harlem – the kingdom of the voiceless – Precious comes very close to the abyss, overcome by anger and despair. Until the day she is admitted to an institution for disadvantaged children and finds in her new teacher the encouragement not to give up. Led by Blue Rain, Precious discovers the magic of letters that form words and sentences, and finds in reading and writing the door to a world she thought was definitively closed. The girl from Harlem discovers that she has feelings, has dreams, and, most importantly, has a voice of her own. This book speaks for itself.