Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance
(2008, original release: 2004)
By:
Obama, Barack
Nonfiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/MEMOIR/OBAMA,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Large Print, 2008
DESCRIPTION
720 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780739328194 (lg. print) :, 0739328190 (lg. print) :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: 2004
"[I]n New York ... 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"--Container