Kid

<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Push</i> a story of survival and awakening--and one young man's remarkable strength<br></b><p><i>The Kid</i> brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones son of Sapphire's unforgettable heroine Precious. Left alone by his mother's death to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade forced to confront unspeakable violence his history and the dark corners of his own heart Abdul claws his way toward adulthood. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artists' lofts <i>The Kid</i> is a soaring tale of body and spirit rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul.</p>