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100 1 $aKnight, Michael Muhammad.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002077073
245 10 $aImpossible man /$cMichael Muhammad Knight.
260 $aBrooklyn :$bSoft Skull Press :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $a346 pages ;$c21 cm
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520 1 $a"Sorting through a tumultuous adolescence of zealotry, disillusionment, and clashing identity in search of balance and resolution, Michael Muhammad Knight offers a sharp, gutsy, at times ribald chronicle of his bizarre and traumatic boyhood, his conversion to Islam, and his embrace of Fight Club-style backyard wrestling." "This is where it starts. His father-a paranoid schizophrenic white supremacist threatens to decapitate his infant son, Michael, when he is a baby, believing him to be the Devil's son. Later he claims Michael is Frederick the Great, later again F. Scott Fitzgerald. So for Michael to figure out who he really is, he has to discover conscious hip-hop and Malcolm X, and give himself up to Allah. After converting to Islam at an upstate New York mosque, he travels to a Pakistani madrassah, where he becomes infatuated with the possibility of embarking on jihad in Chechnya. Later disillusioned by the Sunni establishment, he launches a brutal series of barbed-wire and thumb tack-embedded wrestling bouts and again faces a crisis of self-definition." "Knight is credited by both the New York Times and by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of Muslim punk. While an instant classic of both the coming-of-age and the conversion memoir, Impossible Man is truly a story of how Americans are made, not just born; a story of a young man not only trying to make his own way in the world, but trying to make the world his own. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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