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Push Comes To Shove

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Push Comes To Shove has to be one of the best books I've read in a very long time! Its real life issues, believable characters, and its twist and turns, have you laughing, crying, and shaking your head. Oasis is a talented author who is destined for great things in the literary world. This book is going to put him where he needs to be--at the top.

Greg "GP" Patterson is a dreamer with a wife, two kids, and a boatload of bills and responsibilities that have been shuffled one too many times. Hard times are breaking down his doors like a drug task force, his wife Kitchie is about fed up, and the kids are rapidly losing confidence in dad and his Street Prophet cartoon character. Jewels is his best friend and life jacket in all situations in betwixt her running credit card scams and the next illegal transaction she can get up in the mix with.

While handling their daily hustle, Kitchie and GP are caught up in an altercation that lands them in jail and their children in a foster home. Not just any foster home, but the foster home that GP grew up and was tortured in with his archenemy presiding there. Frantic with the realization that they are indeed helpless and unable to rescue their children, GP and Kitchie face uncomfortable encounters while incarcerated, as does the children facing bullies young and old. It's the good guys versus the bad guys from beginning to end with a mix of issues for everybody.

Oasis has painted a very realistic, emotionally-charged, and refreshing novel. I found it to be a great read that satisfied my thirst for a sincere and page-turning storyline. The characters are genuine and very enchanting. The overview is altogether addictive as it has you afraid to read the next page, but too scared not to proceed. I could actually visualize the characters and specifically could see Jewels being portrayed by none other than Queen Latifah. I commend the author for a job well done. An endearing storyline that was not saturated with sex, designer labels, profanity, or graphic murders. Push Comes to Shove evolves around disappointments, lost dreams, loyalty, responsibilities, sacrifices, genuine friendship, the evil of the world, and more than anything true love. Magnificente Oasis!!!

Reviewed by Tazzyt2bossye
for Urban Reviews

Push Comes To Shove is a heartwarming story that depicts nomatter how hard you try sometimes you can't get ahead. Greg Patterson is facing some hard times and the odds is stacked against him and his family with no way out. This story shows how a man and his wife is involved with a simple assault, but gets charged w/a robbery case. GP's children gets sent off to the same shelter that he grew up in and abused him as a child. The family is separated and broken financially, physically, and mentally. GP tries to get back everything he once had, but soon as he take one step forward, he's knocked back down 3. Jewels, GP's lesbian best friend, steps in to help save the day. Jewels getting money from a loan shark was the easy part, but getting robbed was hard and now GP is back to square one: GP is still looking at doing time, In debt, Homeless, trying to get children out of group home, and still broke. GP's see's the only way out is to do whatever's necessary and by any means to make everyone in his way pay the cost.

Push Comes To Shove was a heartfelt, and laugh out loud book that had it's tender moments. Oasis gives you the message that hard times will come and life will throw curve balls, but it's how you throw that curve ball back will keep you ahead in the game of life. This was a wonderful page turner and had me shouting, crying, laughing, and at the end saying what a entertaining, powerful, and wonderful read.

Wow! This book was so good! From the first page I was hooked! GP has a wife and two kids, but no job. His means of making money is stealing. He's made so many promises to his family that the promises have turned into lies. When both his wife and him end up in jail things start to go downhill for GP. He doesn't know what way to turn and what way to go.

His best friend and hardcore lesbian, Jewels helps him as much as she can always putting her life in a dangerous situation.

It seemed like every time life gave GP a small break he took ten steps back! I felt so bad for him and his family, but they do have some good times and in some parts of the book I was laughing so hard.

Pick up this book today, you'll love it!

Take a young man with his back against the wall and not a dime in his pocket, add to that a wife and children, robbery charges, and a treacherous loan shark and you have the essence of Oasis' "Push Comes to Shove."

Greg "GP" Patterson is struggling. Struggling to make ends meet, but those ends just seem to drift further and further apart. But he can't give up. Something he is reminded of every day when he comes home to his wife and children. Determined to keep his head above water, GP comes up with a plan but things go terribly, terribly wrong. Can GP make it right again?

Oasis has introduced an intriguing plot with many characters that blends well with no drop in action or plotline. "Push Comes to Shove" is well worth reading.

Oasis, a creative thinker, has a wonderful talent that he clearly puts on display in the pages of "Push Comes to Shove." Smart, well-paced and vividly entertaining.

Reviewed by: Toni

Push Comes To Shove, indeed great debut, GP went through it all from childhood..Jewell was of my favorite character's... die hard sistah, who knew how to get even..must read!!

No job, no money, cupboards are bare, bills piling up and getting behind. Unfortunately, sometimes push comes to shove, as Greg aka GP Patterson soon realizes.

GP, has no job, but dreams big. Everyday he is out on the corner trying to hustle his dream. Unfortunately, his dreams aren't paying the bills. When GP and his wife are arrested for an assault, their children are sent away to a group home. The same group home where GP grew up and was abused mentally and physically. When he finds out his children are placed in the same home, he is willing to do anything to get them out.

Having to make some serious moves to find adequate housing for his family, he decides to get in on a hustle that is sure to make big money. In order to make money, he needs money. So he goes to the local loan shark, Squeeze, to borrow the money. When he turns the money over to his long time friend, Jewels, she gets robbed for it all. Not only does he have to figure out a way to pay Squeeze back, but he needs to get his children back and soon. Little does he know Jewels has a few tricks up her sleeve.

PUSH COMES TO SHOVE by Oasis was an excellent novel. The story pulled at my heart, with all that the children had to go through. I really loved the character Jewels, she was not to be played with. My only regret in reading this novel, was that I didn't read it sooner. I would recommend this book for everyone to read.

When push comes to shove, what would you do?

Reviewed by Leona
Street Lit Clique
Streetlitclique.ning.com

This book is the chi ching from that tv cop show. It has been Super Kissed by me. The story is compelling and moves with fluid. The characters were real. GP had it hard living in a group home. Being told "you ain't nothing" so often can make you believe just that. But add a wife, two kids, and a gangster lesbian best friend to the pot. Will it be pot luck or just bad heat. "Fire and gun poweder don't sleep together." Oasis pitched a homerun piecing this story together with heartbeat thrills that left me with my mouth wide open. This book is a definite go-getter.

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A multicultural-suspense novel, vibrant and rich in characters. A plot so intense it literally leaves wounds on the heart. A stunning debut.
--Dawnny Ruby, Mahogany Media Review