{"product_id":"impossible-man-isbn-9781593762261","title":"Impossible Man","description":"Recognized by readers of his novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Taqwacores,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImpossible Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all its extremes, \u003ci\u003eImpossible Man\u003c\/i\u003e describes a universal journey: a wounded boy in search of a working model of manhood, going to outrageous lengths to find it.\u003cb\u003eMichael Muhammad Knight\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Taqwacores\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlue-Eyed Devil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am a Salafi\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301411442917,"sku":"NP9781593762261","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593762261.jpg?v=1767729897","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/impossible-man-isbn-9781593762261","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}