Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Description

Barack Obama’s memoires. “Obama the son of a white American mother and a black African father writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America’s racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America.

In this lyrical unsentimental and compelling memoir the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York where Barack Obama learns that his father–a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man–has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey–first to a small town in Kansas from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii and then to Kenya where he meets the African side of his family confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.”(publisher)
464 pages