{"product_id":"9781847087065","title":"Make Believe: A True Story","description":"In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s.  Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass,  was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173961810160,"sku":"9781847087065","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847087065_p0.jpg?v=1763748931","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847087065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}