Dreams From My Father

Now available unabridged on audio for the first timeNumber one New York Times best sellerOne of Essence's 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Past 50 YearsIn 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.