Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama

2004

Publication

Broadway Books (2004), 464 pages

Description

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.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1995-07-18

Physical description

464 p.; 5.18 inches
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