The boy

A sequel to Precious, the book that inspired the Oscar-winning film for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Boy takes us inside the life of Abdul Jones. At age 9, he is left to fend for himself after his mother's funeral. Encountering a world where love and hate often merge, he finds himself forced to confront unspeakable acts of violence, his own history, and the darkest corners of his heart as he claws his way toward adulthood while simultaneously forging his identity. In a saga that moves from a Mississippi farm to Harlem; from a troubled Catholic orphanage to townhouses in the center of a metropolis, the book chronicles the struggle of a 21st-century young man to forge a path toward the future.