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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race & Inheritance - Adapted for Young Adults Hardcover -
by Barack Obama
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- Title Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race & Inheritance - Adapted for Young Adults
- Author Barack Obama
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Delacorte
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # W123384
- ISBN 9780385738729 / 0385738722
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 910
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, African Americans
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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About this book
Published in 1995, 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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Citations
- School Library Journal, 03/25/2022, Page 1