Short description
Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America. photos. High school & older.
Review
Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.
-- New York Times Book Review
Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.
-- Washington Post Book World
Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . this book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride's The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams's Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America's racial categories. -- Scott Turow
Obama's writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.
-- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here