Precious Jones and a letter of 16-year-old has up until now been invisible, invisible to the father who raped her and the mother who batted her and the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem’s casualties, but my precious pregnant with the second shot by her father meets, he determined and highly radical teacher. We follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as precious learners not only how to write about her life and how to make it her own for the first time.