The Terrorist's Son

Ebrahim's life is an eloquent plea to terrorists -- indeed, to anyone who commits violence out of bigotry and hatred -- to stop and consider the impact on children. His tale speaks to the suffering of children everywhere -- in Gaza, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria -- who are caught up in the raging intolerance of adults. In emotional detail, the terrorist's son takes us through the traumas of his life -- school bullying, social withdrawal, feelings of suicidal worthlessness -- that dogged him from the moment his mother awakened the boy in his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pajamas to inform him that something was horribly wrong and they had to flee immediately from their home in Cliffside Park, N.J.-- Washington Post In his powerful, affecting memoir (written with former EW deputy editor Jeff Giles), he says, ''My father lost his way -- but that didn't stop me from finding mine.''-- Entertainment Weekly The author's father helped plan the 1993 Wold Trade Center bombing. Instead of following in those violent footsteps, Ebrahim now speaks out against terrorism. An astonishing memoir.-- People [A] book you can't put down. Hearing the story of Zak Ebrahim--the son of El-Sayyid Nosair who, when Ebrahim was just 7 years old, killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League and went on to plan the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center from prison--is one thing. (A gut-wrenching, how-is-this-real-life? thing.) Reading it in intimate, terrifying detail--the confusion, the bullying, the burden--is another. (An even more gut-wrenching, how-is-this-real-life? thing.) The Terrorist's Son... tells a detailed account of Ebrahim's story, shared at a TED talk, of his impossibly brutal childhood and adolescence and how he became nothing like his dad.-- GQ