Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
of Barack Obama
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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 fatherâa figure he knows more as a myth than as a manâhas been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyâfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his motherâs family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fatherâs life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 453 pages
- Publisher New York: Three Rivers Press
- Publication Date 2004
- First Publication 07/28/95
- Language English
- ISBN 9781921351433
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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