Sapphire, the author of the well-known book Push, grew up in the United States and taught literature to teenagers and adults in Harlem (Sapphire, II). Having had experience with younger generations of people of different genders, classes, and ethnicities, she was able to observe the problems in her students' lives to a small extent; which probably inspired her to write the novel. By making an African American like her the protagonist of the story, the author tries to establish the fundamental reality of discrimination against women; illiterate and poor, but more importantly, how these women cope on their own without male support. Furthermore, we can observe how the author's feminist approach is a reaction to the fantastic myths of ideal female lives, such as Cinderella, where the two characters live happily ever after. Claireece Precious Jones is the extreme opposite of what we might call the white, happy, stereotypical middle-class girl. Far from normality, this black, illiterate and poor eighteen-year-old conceives two children, both from her sexually disturbed father: “1983 and 198...