How long does it take to read Push?
Sapphire, Tayari Jones, Sapphire, Lofton, Ramona
Push by Sapphire, Tayari Jones, Sapphire, Lofton, Ramona takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 176 pages, about 48,400 words. Written for young adults.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time
Subjects: Child abuse, Pregnant schoolgirls, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Incest
