Dreams from my father

Description

Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama's remarkable memoir. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, long before Obama had thoughts of a political career, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.

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.

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Genres

• Biography

Other Editions

• Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritanceCrown Publishers2007-01-01
• Dreams from my fatherKodansha International1996-01-01
• Dromen van mijn vaderAtlas2007-01-01
• Mai dorīmuDaiyamondosha2007-01-01
• 내 아버지로부터의 꿈Raendŏm Hausŭ K'oria2007-01-01
• Dreams from My FatherHardcoverCrown2007-01-09