Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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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 fathera figure he knows more as a myth than as a manhas been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mothers family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fathers life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Review: âProvocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.â âNew York Times Book ReviewâFluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.â âWashington Post Book World âBeautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . this book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBrideâs The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williamsâs Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride Americaâs racial categories.â âScott TurowâObamaâs writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.â âAlex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children HereFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Author / Editor: Obama, Barack
Category: Biographies
ISBN: 9780307394125
DO NOT BUY, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FREE MOBIPOCKET READER
Review: âProvocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.â âNew York Times Book ReviewâFluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.â âWashington Post Book World âBeautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . this book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBrideâs The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williamsâs Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride Americaâs racial categories.â âScott TurowâObamaâs writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.â âAlex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children HereFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Author / Editor: Obama, Barack
Category: Biographies
ISBN: 9780307394125
DO NOT BUY, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FREE MOBIPOCKET READER
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