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.
Pictured in lefthand photograph on
cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's
paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in
righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President
Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).
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