when i first started the book all i was thinking is that the things in the story was crazy and terrible.The main characters are, Claireece Precious Jone she is a young lady that is 16 years old, and her mother. Claireece and her mother live on 134th Street between Lexon Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd. In the story there is a 16 Year old girl  who have's a baby by her own father at the age of 12. Then she ends up having another baby by her father again. Claireece is trying to get her life to together but she going through so many obstacles with her mother beating on her, falling behind in school to the point that she's not in her right grade and she has two children to take of.