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A review by richardbakare
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
5.0
The tapestry of experiences that are put together to form the life of a person is truly amazing. Often we try to create a formulaic life for ourselves and others. Painting by numbers to ensure a final canvass that looks just as we want it to. Doing so, we fail to remember that the fluidity of life and its challenges are character building themselves. Barack Obama’s life is a prime example of how disrupted plans and a myriad of circumstances can take you out of your comfort zone; molding a person worth admiring.
I truly respect and admire Obama’s transparency and openness about his life. In particular, I valued the way he layered the nuance that is the complex experience of being a black man in America. Especially, when half of your family is white and couldn’t even begin to understand your struggles.
Obama’s early life brings so many joyful and painful memories back for me. The later later experiences that reconnected him with his family, pull firmly on nostalgic threads in my own heart. It was truly inspiring reading a memoir that reminded me so much of the first quarter of my own life, minus the celebrity.
I truly respect and admire Obama’s transparency and openness about his life. In particular, I valued the way he layered the nuance that is the complex experience of being a black man in America. Especially, when half of your family is white and couldn’t even begin to understand your struggles.
Obama’s early life brings so many joyful and painful memories back for me. The later later experiences that reconnected him with his family, pull firmly on nostalgic threads in my own heart. It was truly inspiring reading a memoir that reminded me so much of the first quarter of my own life, minus the celebrity.