John Jude Parish lives the teenaged American dream: tall and handsome, a surfer and skateboarder, he is living at the beach house owned by his indulgent parents. He has been accepted at Brown but decides to delay his college entrance and undertake a year of independent study. Sufi poetry leads to the study of Arabic; he makes Muslim friends and eventually travels to Pakistan. Readers will see similarities to the true story of John Walker Lindh in this absorbing account of a young man’s dangerous journey.
Sounds like an interesting read. Nice website by the way!
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