Audio Book Description:
In this lyrical, unsentimental,and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaningto 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 aman-has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey-first to a small town inKansas, from which he retracesthe migration of is mother`s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of hisfather`s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.