
Impossible Man: Or, F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Rise of Islam
(2009)A non fiction book by
Michael Muhammad Knight
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.
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.
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April 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Impossible Man Author(s): Michael Muhammad Knight ISBN: 1-59376-226-7 / 9781593762261 (USA edition) Publisher: Soft Skull Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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