Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The son of a black African father and a white American mother looks for a practical purpose to his existence as a black American in this poetic, heartfelt, and captivating memoir. Barack Obama finds out that his father—a guy he remembers more as a myth than as a real person—died in a vehicle accident in New York, where the story starts. This unexpected death sets off an emotional journey that takes him first to a small Kansas town where he retraces his mother's family's migration to Hawaii. From there, he travels to Kenya, where he meets his African side of the family, faces the painful truth of his father's life, and ultimately finds closure for his divided inheritance.