Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.

1st pbk. ed.

New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004.

xvii, 453 p. ; 21 cm.

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 father₇a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man₇has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey₇first 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 father₂s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

English

November 18, 2008

Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.