November Book Talk - "Push" by Sapphire (Precious)

Note: We're meeting earlier this month due to the Thanksgiving holiday and impending kickoff of the Christmas Holiday shopping season. Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Film PRECIOUS Movie release date is scheduled for November. Click here to watch the movie trailer. This movie is based on the novel "PUSH" by Sapphire. "PUSH" was published in 1996. If you have not had an opportunity to read the novel, here's your opportunity! Let's meet to see the movie and have a few drinks or lunch afterwards OR let's have lunch and then meet for the movie afterwards. We can decide later. Editorial Review 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.