![]() ![]() Still Abdul insists that he’s not a bad boy, and he isn’t. After a while, Abdul comes to treat his one friend at the orphanage, a smaller boy named Jaime, with the same abuse mingled with perverse tenderness. Ailanthus, furthers his deterioration he is by turns sexually and psychologically abused and coddled by the religious brothers who run the place. His removal to a boy’s orphanage, the oddly named St. ![]() He not only loses his mother and his home, but somewhere along the line he even loses his name-everyone starts calling him “Jamal” or “J.J.” He believes he hears his mother’s voice, he zones out, he talks to himself. Still, the trauma of Precious’ death and the sugary callousness of the women who take him in are the beginnings of his break with the world. The book opens with the death of Abdul’s mother when he’s only nine years old and still an innocent. The difficulty comes largely because its protagonist, Precious’ son Abdul, is a young man who’s hard to relate to. The Kid, Sapphire’s sequel to Push, the novel on which the movie Precious was based, is a grueling book. ![]()
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