In the intimate, terrifying, and deeply alive story of Abdul's journey, we are witness to an artist's birth by fire. A testament to the ferocity of the human spirit and the deep nourishing power of love and of art, The Kid chronicles a young man about to take flight. 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, The Kid tells of a twenty- first-century young man's fight to find a way toward the future.
Left alone to navigate a world in which 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. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. The highly anticipated Final book in the Sequel to the. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push's unforgettable heroine, Precious.Ī story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. Dear boy he brought the precious book, And you can't see to read, he said Then lifting up his insant voice, Between my knees the. Read Precious Time The Chronicles of Kerrigan Sequel, 6 by W.J. Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious's son, Abdul.
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