I just finished listening to Dreams from My Father by Barak Obama. It was a wonderful audiobook! I really enjoyed hearing about his struggle to keep his worlds together. Born to a Kenyan international student and a white lady from Kansas, he grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, attended college in LA and NYC and got a law degree from Harvard. Through it all he had to deal with what it meant to be highly mobile and cross-cultural. Most touching to me was the description of his first trip back to Kenya. Having lived in Africa (Malawi and Kenya) I was able to relate in some way to the struggles he faced, especially with regard to the haves and have-nots. Please read this book!
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