The Kid
Author: Sapphire
ISBN: 9780241957301
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 19 Sep 2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
The breathtaking follow-up to Push, the bestselling novel that inspired the Academy-Award winning film Precious
Abdul Jones is nine years old when his mother Precious dies. Parentless, he is sent first to a foster home and then to a Catholic orphanage. But the priests charged to care for him abuse his trust terribly.
And Abdul, a victim, finds that he reacts in the most frightening way imaginable. Soon he is trapped in a dark cycle of sexual violence and betrayal. Yet through dance, in controlling his body, he discovers a way he might somehow break free and become himself . . .
A harrowing and powerful novel set in New York, The Kid is a portrait of a boy forced to grow up in a cruel and callous world.
ISBN: 9780241957301
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 19 Sep 2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
The breathtaking follow-up to Push, the bestselling novel that inspired the Academy-Award winning film Precious
Abdul Jones is nine years old when his mother Precious dies. Parentless, he is sent first to a foster home and then to a Catholic orphanage. But the priests charged to care for him abuse his trust terribly.
And Abdul, a victim, finds that he reacts in the most frightening way imaginable. Soon he is trapped in a dark cycle of sexual violence and betrayal. Yet through dance, in controlling his body, he discovers a way he might somehow break free and become himself . . .
A harrowing and powerful novel set in New York, The Kid is a portrait of a boy forced to grow up in a cruel and callous world.
