BOOK REVIEW: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The book under review, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance divided in nineteen chapters, has been written by the then Senator from Illinois, Lincoln’s home State (The current US President) Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995, shortly after Barack became the first black editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review ( reissued in 2004) when he was graduated from Harvard Law School at the age of 33. As the name of the book suggests that the absent father looms in the imaginations of the writer. It is Barack Obama Senior or rather his absence that provides the story line strength behind this memoir. The book serves as a sore reminder of mental and poignant plague that is inflicted on children when their fathers are distant or completely missing in action.