Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Audiobook (Free)

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of the black African father and a white American mom searches for a workable meaning to his life like a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama discovers that his father-a body he knows more as a misconception than like a man-has been killed in a car accident. This sudden loss of life inspires an emotional odyssey-first to a small city in Kansas, that he retraces the migration of his mother’s family members to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he fits the African part of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s lifestyle, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama’s paternal grandmother and his dad as a guy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (Leader Obama’s maternal grandfather and his mother as a girl).