So reading Barbara Sinatra's biography about her life with Frank, "Lady Blue Eyes" made me a bit jealous, especially when she talked about how lucky she was and how great Frank was to her. They had some tumultuous times, but in the end it sounded wonderful. So yeah. Enough of the happy happy.
"The Kid" by Sapphire killed the "happy happy". A sequel to "Push", "The Kid" finds Precious's son Abdul orphaned at 9 when Precious dies of AIDS. Abdul is sent to a foster home and then a Catholic home for boys where of course the priests molest him. He runs away at 13 to live with his great grandmother, but that doesn't work out and he ends up being taken in by Roman, who uses him as a sex slave pet until he escapes from there at age 17 to try to be straight and live on his own as a dancer. I didn't like this book as well as "Push". It was hard to read because of all the abuse and general awfulness going on around Abdul, but Abdul makes a lot of dumb decisions that lands him where he ends up in his life, so I couldn't feel as sorry for him as I did for his mother, who just seemed to catch it no matter what she did and honestly tried to make a valiant effort to better herself. I think it would have broken her heart to see the boy she struggled for and loved so much turn out the way he did. Plus, Sapphire mentions Abdul using Google in 1997. Um...no, try again. While it was certainly around back then, it wasn't the powerhouse it is today. Plus, 9 year old Abdul had his own computer even though Precious was on welfare and trying to take classes at City College and whatnot. Somehow I think a computer would have been way, way down on her list of things to purchase.
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