I just finsihed reading the novel PUSH by Sapphire. This is the novel that inspired the movie that just came out on DVD, Precious. WOW...it was absolutely crazy. This author kept my complete attention and this book did not leave my side for two days. Yes, I finished this book in two days. It was kind of like a car wreck, it was so crazy and obscene that I wanted to find out what else could possibly happen to this woman. I experienced so many emotions while reading this gripping story; love, hate and everything extreme in-between the two.
Amazon does a great job of summarizing the book:
Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it."
http://www.amazon.com/Push-Novel-Sapphire/dp/0679766758
It is written in a ghetto dialect so at times it is hard to understand. Also mixed in are some of Precious' poems that were written during her time in a pre- G.E.D. program.
VERY, VERY GOOD read. Next: watch the movie.
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