So, Push was seemingly building up to something the last time I wrote. Last night, I finished the book and I can tell you that this book builds up to a brick wall. It was one of those books where you think it's going to end well, that things are going to come full circle. In a way, it does...but there's something missing. The end is the stories of all the other girls in Precious' pre-GED class. Her "story" is eerily absent, a poem about little to nothing, and then the entire novel just ENDS. There are no notes on the real Precious (Sapphire). Did she get her GED? What happened to her children? Did she stay in Harlem? This is non-fiction. I'm used to reading non-fiction stories with a clear, almost anticipated ending. But this had no such thing.
Push by Sapphire gets a 7/10.
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