Book Club!!!!

Book Club Night! Our selection this time….Push by Sapphire, the book that inspired the motion picture Precious.

This book was once described as “one of the most disturbing portraits of motherhood ever published” (City Paper, November 1996). The complexities in this book allowed for a diverse discussion of topics ranging from the incest to homophobia and about racism and racial/economic disparities in educational/welfare systems.

I had not seen the movie but felt that the book read like a script where you could imagine exactly what was occurring at each moment. The only drawback was that the book was written grammatically as Precious would speak which was very frustrating when she spoke about her “Muver” (Mother) or used profanity every other word.

Our next selection…..Hill Harper's Letters to a Young Sister.

Happy Reading!