We came across this review of Push by Sapphire, which is now a Golden Globe-nominated film. Check it out:I love it when a book--any book--is hot property. This is certainly the case these days for Push, which I bought from a book vendor on 125th street. because the title was so popular the weekend Precious came out he had to summon another vendor who came sprinting down the street, book in hand.
So is Push any good, hype aside? Yes. It's a quick read, and a painful read--Sapphire doesn't pull any punches and her heroine suffers every kind of tribulation imaginable--but I found it incredibly worthwhile first as an example of experimental narrative, second as an incredibly real window into a place and time and a person's psyche.
Read the rest at The Egalitarian Bookworm.
--Whitney
1 comment:
I look a good book as much as anyone, but I just cannot bring myself to read this. I enjoy books that have an element of drama, but this is just too real for me because I know it happens to little girls every day.
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