&ldquo;The Kid&rdquo; is Sapphire&rsquo;s long-awaited follow-up to her 1996 first novel, &ldquo;Push.&rdquo; That slender novel was of course made more famous by the 2009 film by Lee Daniels (who, Sapphire writes, &ldquo;quite simply changed my life&rdquo;), &ldquo;Precious.&rdquo; In &ldquo;Push,&rdquo; Precious Jones, a young, obese, pregnant, illiterate teenager who is sexually abused by both her mother [...]