The kid

by Sapphire

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Title Statements

Full title :The kid / Sapphire.

Summary

This book is Sapphire's latest, a sequel to Push coming 15 years after its publication and one year after Precious, the film based on Push, got Academy Award attention. It is the story of Precious's son, Abdul, opening on the day of his mother's funeral. This book brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire's unforgettable heroine, Precious. It is a story of survival and awakening, and of one young man's remarkable strength. We meet Abdul at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. Left alone to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he can stand behind. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday; from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artist's lofts, this story tells of a twenty-first-century young man's fight to find a way to the future. Intimate, terrifying, deeply alive in Abdul's journey we are witness to an artist's birth by fire.--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Sequel to: Push.

The Physical Object

Description:373 p. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1594203040, 9781594203046
oclc:ocn779675286
LC Classification:PS3569.A63
Dewey Decimal:813/.54

Subjects

African American African Americans Garçons noirs américains -- Romans, nou… Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Romans New York (State) -- New York Noirs américains Quartiers défavorisés -- Romans, nouvel…