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Sapphire introduces new 'Kid' in Harlem: Precious' son

But Precious survives. In spirit, she may even triumph over what has been done to her. She learns to read.

By the end of Push , the 1997 debut novel by a writer who calls herself Sapphire, and Precious , the 2009 movie adaptation that won two Academy Awards and made a star of Gabourey Sidibe , Precious is learning to make it on her own. She's becoming something she never had herself: a loving mother.

But not for long. Sapphire's second novel, The Kid (Viking, $25.95, released Tuesday), begins on the day of Precious' funeral.

Precious' son, Abdul, a toddler at the end of Push , is now 9. He says to himself: "I know my mother ain't dead like they be saying 'cause I be talking to her all the time just like I always did."

Sapphire, 60, says she knows that Precious' death at 27 is "going to disappoint a lot of readers who'd like to read another 300 pages all about her."

So why kill off her most beloved character?

"I don't think I've killed off Precious," she replies during an interview at the busy Harlem branch of the New York Public Library . "She made good use of her short life, as the reverend says at her funeral. And she lives on, through the memory and history of her son."

And as a writer "committed to both art and social reality, I recognize the reality of that time. ( Push is set in the late 1980s.) A lot of young African-American women were dying from AIDS . Poor African-American women were 10 times more likely to die from AIDS than were upper-class white gay men. … People like Precious didn't get the help they needed."

Sapphire got more than a little help when Push was turned into the movie Precious by director Lee Daniels , who says the novel "sucked the wind right out of me. I knew it could be a great movie." (Sapphire's original title refers to the fact that Precious is urged to do a lot of pushing — in school, where's she told to "push herself," and in the hospital when she's giving birth.)

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His film propelled her novel "beyond its comfort zone," Sapphire says, "beyond the artists and intellectuals and black teens and social workers. It moved it out into mainstream America." (Former first lady Barbara Bush hosted a screening.

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