Before Barack Obama became a politician he was, among other things, a writer. Dreams from My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging.The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama describes his search for meaning in his life as a black American and recounts an emotional odyssey. First to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii; then to his childhood home in Indonesia; finally to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
