Dreams From My Father
RANDOM HOUSE LARGE PRINT
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
