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Sapphire comes to Kansas City

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By Patsy Campos

Rainy Day Books has a fabulous event coming up for the whole community featuring Sapphire, New York Times best-selling author of the novel Push, which in 2009 was adapted into the motion picture Precious. Sapphire will appear in Kansas City, on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 7 pm at Unity Temple on the Plaza, to discuss The Kid, the long-awaited sequel to Push

According to Rainy Day Books, “The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire’s unforgettable heroine, Precious. A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid is a story of survival and awakening, and one young man’s remarkable strength. We meet Abdul at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral. Left alone 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 and toward an identity he can stand behind. 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 artist’s lofts, The Kid tells of a twenty-first century young man’s fight to find a way toward the future. A testament to the ferocity of the human spirit, the deep nourishing power of love, and of art, The Kid becomes a young man about to take flight. Intimate, terrifying, deeply alive in Abdul’s journey we are witness to an artist’s birth by fire.”

The admission package for this event is $25.95 which includes one Hardcover copy of The Kid, one Stamped Admission Ticket, and one Guest Ticket.  Scholarship tickets for the event only are also available for students and youth groups.  Students with a valid ID can pick up a scholarship ticket at Rainy Day Books, 2706 W 53rd Street, in Fairway, Kansas or reserve a ticket to pick up at the event by calling (913) 384-3126. For more information about this event visit http://www.rainydaybooks.com/Sapphire.