num_pages: 348
description: Cowritten by Malcolm Xs daughter this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.I am Malcolm. I am my fathers son. But to be my fathers son means that they will always come for me. They will always come for me and I will always succumb.Malcolm Littles parents have always told him that he can achieve anything but from what he can tell that's nothing but a pack of liesafter all his father's been murdered his mother's been taken away and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. Theres no point in trying he figures and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York he escapes into a world of fancy suits jazz girls and reefer.But Malcolms efforts to leave the past behind lead him into increasingly dangerous territory when what starts as some small-time hustling quickly spins out of control. Deep down he knows that the freedom hes found is only an illusionand that he can't run forever.X follows Malcolm from his childhood to his imprisonment for theft at age twenty when he found the faith that would lead him to forge a new path and command a voice that still resonates today.
language: English
title: X
publisher: Candlewick Press