The Reading Diva

List of mentioned books: Come Sunday Morning Love, Honor and Betray My Long Trip Home Secret Obsession Sellout Silver Sparrow The Man in the Rockefeller Suit

They call Spartanburg the Sparkle City. Sapphire brought some of it there on Thursday (December 8). The author, best known for her book Push , visited the Spartanburg County Public Library's Headquarters location December 8 as a part of library's Fall Into Reading Series. Sapphire also talked about her latest book, The Kid , which follows the life of Precious Jones' son, Abdul. The first part of the event was a discussion with WSPA's Amy Wood (thanks for the shout-out, Amy!). Sapphire said that she wanted to highlight child abuse in both of her books and used the Penn State and Syracuse as current examples. "A book has a long life," she said. "There were people f ifteen years ago who couldn't read Push . Now it has a common place. There are generations and generations that go through it (child abuse) and they don't deal with it because we don't rip it open and look at it." Sapphire talking to Amy Wood As man

Sapphire, author of the best-selling novel Push , will be at the Spartanburg County Public Library on Thursday, December 8. This event will be a part of the library's first Fall For Reading series, where readings will have coffee and conversations with the author. Sapphire will not only be promoting Push (which was the basis of the movie Precious ), but her new novel The Kid , which follows the life of Precious' son, Abdul. Yours truly will be making the three-hour drive up I-26 to Spartanburg to attend this event. I will be posting and writing about the experience next week.