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    The Kid

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    Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a society enormously uneasy with gay adoption, makes for an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating read. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant badly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up in a drama that extends well beyond the confines of their immediate world. A story about confronting homophobia, falling in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, The Kid is a book about the very human desire to have a family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781101627310
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    • 3/5
      I was so excited for this book. I hate to say I was disappointed, but I was, slightly. I was so excited because I absolutely LOVED Push. (I still do!) It is one of my favorite books. I was even more excited when I heard Sapphire was coming to Minneapolis. I made the mistake of not finishing the book before I went to hear her speak. She was AMAZING, but it kind of ruined the rest of the book for me. I had read about 3/4 of the book and after I heard her speak I didn't really have any desire to finish reading it. She gave away the ending and that was that for me. J.J. was a strange character to me. I don't think I really liked him. I wasn't really rooting for him. He wasn't a nice guy -- he was messed up and proceeded to mess up other people. I was also so sad that Precious was killed off in the first page! I loved her so much from Push and I wanted her to succeed. Yes, this book had it's redeeming qualities, but I did not nearly enjoy it as much as Push.
    • 2/5
      Disturbing story about Precious' son Abdul. Told in 4 parts, the book begins when Precious has died of AIDS and Abdul is sent to foster care. Throughout the book, we learn about Abdul's difficult journey from adolescence into adulthood and what happens to one child who hasn't felt loved in a very long time.Sapphire's stream-of-consciousness writing style doesn't always work. Abdul is a very complicated character and many times his dreams and thoughts are confused with reality. Sometimes I found the graphic subject matter not necessary and a bit gratuitous. "The Kid" is a tough read but not as strong or as well-written as "Push."
    • 1/5
      I really wanted to love this book. As a teenager I read Push and it was life changing. I remember being moved by the raw emotion conveyed through Sapphire's writing style. When I opened this book I anticipated much of the same.Abdul Jones is the some of Precious, the neglected and abused young woman from Push. We meet Abdul, age 9, as he is getting ready to attend his mother's funeral and together both boy and reader fall down a well of confusion and despair. Abdul's life in foster care is abusive and deceitful and we follow as he goes from the young prey to the strong predator. The story itself is sad and thought-provoking but the way it is written makes it too hard to stay engaged. Sapphire uses stream of consciousness to write Abdul's story and at some points it is moving, at others it is hard to read and just too much. The ending is the biggest disappointment of the book. We leave Abdul in a state of complete confusion. He is confused about the twists and turns his life has taken and the reader is confused as to why we kept reading the book. I did not expect an happy ending but I didn't expect it to fall flat at the end either.
    • 1/5
      We met Abdul Jones on the morning of his mother’s funeral. He is nine years old and finds himself completely alone, facing a long hard road ahead. Unlike Precious, who grew through her experience, Abdul (J.J.) slides ever deeper into the system and into his own anger and despair. He becomes a character I did not like very much. Then the book descended into a book I did not like very much.

      Written in the same gritty and coarse manner as Push, I felt that this book used the language and the situations for shock value rather than being an integral part of the story telling. I finished the book hoping there would be some satisfactory resolution for me as a reader. I would have accepted good or bad, but there was nothing I could grasp on to. Sadly disappointing as a sequel.
    • 5/5
      This novel is sprawling and messy but also entrancing. Where Push was a compact gut punch, this is a slow burning bleed in the back of the skull. The one thing above all others that Precious gives her son Abdul is language, hoping to make his life better than her own. it seems though that all language gives Abdul is broader dimension to his experience, thought, and actions. His experience is often violent and shocking, as are his thoughts and actions. The grimness of his experience does battle with his own joy and chance for redemption. He is at once a creator and a destroyer, a victim and a perpetrator, a hero and a villain, but his character complicates and distorts these categories. Sapphire has crafted a devastatingly complex character reflecting the fullness of human potential and human frailty. Sapphire's background as an experimental poet is more evident here than it is in Push, with a stream consciousness narrative style that is both poetic and disjointed, percussive and beautiful. Fans of Push might not be open to many aspects of this book, especially with regard to form and characterization. Sapphire rightly invokes the poetry of Ai in one of the novel's epigraphs, as there are tonal echoes of it here, along with echoes of Samuel Delany's most transgressive works. This novel is a phenomenal work of contemporary American literature that gives voice to a challenging character.
    • 2/5
      Ummmm. I really hate to give negative reviews especially if I enjoyed other works by the author. This novel however, I really had to drive myself to finish. Most of the novel had me completely lost and read like a tweaker sitting down with someone trying to tell a story. The ONLY character that I liked was Toosie. I was sympathetic towards the story and felt deeply towards the issues and what the author was trying to say but was so confused that it made me bitter. I WANTED to understand but just couldn't because of all the disjointed rambling. I really liked Push but this....WTF???
    • 5/5
      I Really enjoyed the book . Alot of funny moments.
    • 5/5
      So, so good and so funny. Loved the honesty. He talks about a lot of things most people are afraid to admit.
    • 4/5
      Really a good book. Great comedy and an interesting journey of a a young gay couple adopting.
    • 5/5
      loved it