{"product_id":"9781593762261","title":"Impossible Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecognized 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\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035475853552,"sku":"9781593762261","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593762261_p0.jpg?v=1763809247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593762261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}