BARACK OBAMA DREAMS FROM MY FATHER IN KOCHI

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the black son of an African father and white American mother searches for a functional purpose in 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 a man, was killed in a car accident. That sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to small-town Kansas, where he sees his mother's family move to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, faces the bitter truth of his father's life, and finally comes to terms with their shared heritage.