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.
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