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Now available unabridged on audio for the first time
Number one New York Times best seller
One of Essence’s 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Past 50 Years
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
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.
Customers say
Customers find the book pretty well written in a simplistic style. They also describe the author as amazing and gifted. Readers find the story compelling, mysterious, and moving. They describe the content as introspective, earnest, and credible. However, some find the entertainment value not very interesting and the bibliography sick. Opinions are mixed on comprehensibility, with some finding it easy to follow and others finding it hard to follow.
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