![]() ![]() Without a loving parent or guardian to show him the boundaries of real affection, sex for Abdul becomes a toxic, compulsive collision of pain and pleasure. Sex in this novel is invariably ugly and abusive as its author plunges us into the psychology of how the victim can become the perpetrator. Sapphire being Sapphire, we are not spared anything, and what transpires is sexual abuse on a grand scale – in a foster home, in a Catholic orphanage and even with a middle-aged dance teacher who conveniently presumes that his "lover" is older than 13. They don't know she is talking to me all the time even though she is in the casket box not talking, not moving." It's the start of a coping mechanism he relies on more and more, fusing fantasy with reality.Ībdul is left to the mercy of the state and, inevitably, what one fears for him comes to pass. At the funeral, he says to himself: "Everybody think she is dead. After her death, he still talks to her and relives past conversations in his head. ![]() Her youngest child, Abdul, is the narrator – a bright nine-year-old boy in whom she has instilled good manners, strong moral values and a keen awareness of his cultural heritage. ![]() She has risen above the squalor and tragedy of her childhood and educated herself. At the start of The Kid, Precious is on the verge of dying from Aids. ![]()
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