Every year I’ve got a handful of students (girls mostly) who fight over the two or three copies of Sapphire’s ‘Push’ in my classroom library. If you don’t know about ‘Push’—and, honestly, at this point, given the huge success of ‘Precious,’ the Oscar nominated film version, this means either you’ve given up on American cinema entirely, or you just don’t care ‘cause it’s not in 3D—it’s basically the antithesis of that other fought-over bestseller and fountain of teenage readership, ‘Twilight.’ Only in ‘Push,’ the werewolves are real ones.
With regards to my students reading this book, my position until very recently has been, “Yeah—I know it has some explicit subject matter, but, hey, at least they’re reading, right?”
