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...