The Kid

The Kid, by Sapphire.

I have not read Push by Sapphire, but I have seen the movie Precious on which it is based, and it was a grim, heartbreaking story but also interesting. A friend of mine read Push and said that it was very hard to get through, since Sapphire wrote it in the way that the main character, Precious, would have – with bad grammar and spelling -- and The Kid follows in that vein.

*Read the whole review at BlogHer.com here.