Los sueños de mi padre

In these lyrical and absorbing memoirs, originally published in 1995, the son of a black African and a white American seeks his way as an African American. The memories Obama recounts in My Father's Dreams begin in New York, where he learns that his father has died in a car accident. The unexpected news provokes in him a physical and emotional journey that takes him from Kansas to Hawaii and later to Kenya, in an emotional odyssey that will allow him to really know his family, the bitter truth of his father's life and finally reconcile the different parts of his fragmented heritage.