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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.
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