Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
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New York : Three Rivers Press, [2004].
Format
Book
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 453 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
BIO OBAMA, B
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Published
New York : Three Rivers Press, [2004].
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.1, 26 Points
Lexile measure
1010

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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 father₇a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man₇has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey₇first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother₂s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father₂s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Target Audience
1010L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,7.1,26,113511.

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