Dreams From My Father
Subtitle: A Story of Race and Inheritence
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 414
Copyright date: 1995
First sentence: A few months after my twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news.
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 mother₂s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father₂s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.