Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
(Book)

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 b7 sa figure he knows more as a myth than as a man b7 shas been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey b7 sfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother b2 ss family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father b2 ss life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.