The Gift of Our Wounds

✍ Scribed by Michaelis, Arno

• Book ID: 109922511
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 926 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250107541

✦ Synopsis

The powerful story of a friendship between two men --one Sikh and one skinhead--that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate.

One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference.

When white supremacist Wade Michael Page murdered six people and wounded four in a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012, Pardeep Kaleka was devastated. The temple leader, now dead, was his father. His family, who had immigrated to the U.S. from India when Pardeep was young, had done everything right. Why was this happening to him? Meanwhile, Arno Michaelis, a former skinhead and founder of one of the largest racist skinhead organizations in the world, had spent years of his life committing terrible acts in the name of white power. When he heard about the attack, waves of guilt washing over him, he knew he had to take action and fight against the very crimes he used to commit.

After the...