I really enjoyed hearing about his childhood – about his mother and his grandparents, who played a huge role in his formative years and upbringing. That book morphed into this one, a kind of memoir about his biracial heritage, his youth growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia and his exploration of his identity and what it meant to be a person of colour. After he was elected President of Harvard Law Review, the first Black person there as well, he was given a publishing contract to write a book about race relations. This was written in the mid-90s, before he became a politician, let alone the first Black President of the United States. He just has such a wonderful voice and he writes with such personality too. I would listen to Barack Obama narrate his shopping list. 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. 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. Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritanceīlurb : 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.
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