Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America

Aymann Ismail

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Edité par Random House USA Inc, 2025

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"[Ismail's] memoir thoughtfully examines the challenges of preserving faith.His storytelling balances humor with reflection.A warm and insightful exploration of how faith sustains and evolves across generations."  --Kirkus Reviews "An uncommonly honest and moving book about family life and fatherhood.lays out crucial questions about manhood, parenting, and faith, and helps readers understand why those questions are important to everyone." --Dan Kois, award-winning journalist and author of How To Be a Family and Hampton Heights From Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail comes an exquisite memoir about fatherhood, religion, and the search for identity in an ever-shifting world. The son of Egyptian immigrants, Aymann Ismail came of age in the shadow of 9/11, tracking the barrage of predatory headlines pervading the media and influencing the popular consciousness about Muslims. After a series of bomb threats were directed at his Islamic school in Teaneck, New Jersey, just a few miles from downtown Manhattan, his parents--anxious that it was no longer safe to be so explicitly Muslim--enrolled him in public school, where he was the only Muslim his new friends had ever met. In the privacy of their home, they turned to their faith for guidance on how to live, adhering to traditional notions about gender roles, and avoiding the putative American dangers of alcohol, sex, and rebellion. And yet, Aymann is undeniably an American teenager, negotiating his place in multiple worlds while chafing against the structures of his upbringing. He eventually embarks on a career in political journalism, in part to establish his own version of things. In time, though, he also gains a deeper understanding and appreciation for his parents' values and sacrifices--his father's grueling work ethic as a town car driver, and his mother's adeptness at managing their itinerant family. When Aymann meets and falls in love with Mira, a woman with her own ideas about the modern Muslim family, his world shifts yet again. After Mira gets pregnant with their first child, Aymann begins to reckon with his past, future, and the beliefs that have shaped his life. What does it mean to be a Muslim man? More still, what does it mean to be any man--and a father to a baby boy and girl? And how best to honor one's cultural heritage while holding space for change and discovery?   In lucid, confident prose, Aymann Ismail questions the sturdy frameworks of religion and family, the legacies of his childhood, and what will become his children's ethical and intellectual inheritance. To reckon unflinchingly with these questions offers him a road map for his young Muslim children on how to navigate the singular journey into adulthood.…

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Titre
Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America
Auteur
Aymann Ismail
Éditeur
Random House USA Inc
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
Like New
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
038554961X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780385549615

World of Books (was SecondSale)

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