Push (Revised)
(Sprache: Englisch)
"With a new preface by Tayari Jones and a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
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"With a new preface by Tayari Jones and a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
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Chapter II was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver. That was in 1983. I was out of school for a year. This gonna be my second baby. My daughter got Down Sinder. She s retarded. I had got left back in the second grade too, when I was seven, cause I couldn t read (and I still peed on myself). I should be in the eleventh grade, getting ready to go into the twelf grade so I can gone n graduate. But I m not. I m in the ninfe grade.
I got suspended from school cause I m pregnant which I don t think is fair. I ain did nothin !
My name is Claireece Precious Jones. I don t know why I m telling you that. Guess cause I don t know how far I m gonna go with this story, or whether it s even a story or why I m talkin ; whether I m gonna start from the beginning or right from here or two weeks from now. Two weeks from now? Sure you can do anything when you talking or writing, it s not like living when you can only do what you doing. Some people tell a story n it don t make no sense or be true. But I m gonna try to make sense and tell the truth, else what s the fucking use? Ain enough lies and shit out there already?
So, OK, it s Thursday, September twenty-four 1987 and I m walking down the hall. I look good, smell good fresh, clean. It s hot but I do not take off my leather jacket even though it s hot, it might get stolen or lost. Indian summer, Mr Wicher say. I don t know why he call it that. What he mean is, it s hot, 90 degrees, like summer days. And there is no, none, I mean none, air conditioning in this mutherfucking building. The building I m talking about is, of course, I.S. 146 on 134th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd. I am walking down the hall from homeroom to first period maff. Why they put some shit like maff first period I do not know. Maybe to gone n git it over with. I actually don t mind maff as much as I had thought I would. I jus fall in Mr Wicher s class sit down. We don t have assigned seats in
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Mr Wicher s class, we can sit anywhere we want. I sit in the same seat everyday, in the back, last row, next to the door. Even though I know that back door be locked. I don t say nuffin to him. He don t say nuffin to me, now. First day he say, Class turn the book pages to page 122 please. I don t move. He say, Miss Jones, I said turn the book pages to page 122. I say, Mutherfucker I ain t deaf! The whole class laugh. He turn red. He slam his han down on the book and say, Try to have some discipline. He a skinny little white man about five feets four inches. A peckerwood as my mother would say. I look at him n say, I can slam too. You wanna slam? N I pick up my book n slam it down on the desk hard. The class laugh some more. He say, Miss Jones I would appreciate it if you would leave the room right NOW. I say, I ain going nowhere mutherfucker till the bell ring. I came here to learn maff and you gon teach me. He look like a bitch just got a train pult on her. He don t know what to do. He try to recoup, be cool, say, Well, if you want to learn, calm down I m calm, I tell him. He say, If you want to learn, shut up and open your book. His face is red, he is shaking. I back off. I have won. I guess.
I didn t want to hurt him or embarrass him like that you know. But I couldn t let him, anybody, know, page 122 look like page 152, 22, 3, 6, 5 all the pages look alike to me. N I really do want to learn. Everyday I tell myself something gonna
I didn t want to hurt him or embarrass him like that you know. But I couldn t let him, anybody, know, page 122 look like page 152, 22, 3, 6, 5 all the pages look alike to me. N I really do want to learn. Everyday I tell myself something gonna
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sapphire
- 2021, 240 Seiten, Masse: 13 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0593314603
- ISBN-13: 9780593314609
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling. The New York Times Book Review
A horrific, hope-filled story [that is] brilliant, blunt, merciless.
Newsday
Brutal, redemptive . . . you just can t take your eyes off Precious Jones.
Newsweek
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