The Kid

Sapphire's The Kid continues the saga of Precious from the Push novel with her son Abdul, who is walking a similar life path as his mother with sexual abuse, absentee parents, and trying to make a life is growing up in the bowels in New York City. It is a coming of age story about a boy who is trying to find his place in the world through the arts, realizing that one wrong step or demon haunting him will end him up in the same place as his mother.