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Synopsis
Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing number of teenagers who choose neither side of the "Clash of Civilizations." Knight has now written his personal story, a chronicle of his bizarre and traumatic boyhood and his conversion to Islam during a turbulent adolescence.
Impossible Man follows a boy's struggle in coming to terms with his father--a paranoid schizophrenic and white supremacist who had threatened to decapitate Michael when he was a baby--and his father's place in his own identity. It is also the story of a teenager's troubled path to maturity and the influences that steady him along the way. Knight's encounter with Malcolm X's autobiography transforms him from a disturbed teenager engaged in correspondence with Charles Manson to a zealous Muslim convert who travels to Pakistan and studies in a madrassa. Later disillusioned by radical religion, he again faces the crisis of self-definition. For all its extremes, Impossible Man describes a universal journey: a wounded boy in search of a working model of manhood, going to outrageous lengths to find it."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Michael Muhammad Knight is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and scholar. He converted to Islam at sixteen and traveled to Islamabad at seventeen to study at a madrasa. His books include The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, and Why I Am a Salafi. He is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. CI2 - An advance galley softcover book in very good condition that has some bumped corners and stains, some light discoloration and shelf wear. Sorting through a tumultous adolescences of zealotry, disillusionment, and clasing identity in search of balance and resolution, Michael Muhammad Knight offers a sharp, gutsy, at times ribald chronicle of a bizarre and traumatic boyhood, his conversion to Islam, and his embrace of Fight Club-style gonzo wrestling. 8.25"x5.5", 346 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Seller Inventory # EC33134BB
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