{"product_id":"impossible-man-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.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62273312719235,"sku":"9781593762261","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781593762261.jpg?v=1785526049","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/impossible-man-9781593762261","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}