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Title: Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival
Author: George Obama and Damien Lewis
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2010
256 pages
The autobiography, thus far, of President Obama's younger half-brother George in Kenya. The writing is fine and George's life story is interesting. What makes this fun, though, is its points of intersection and divergence with Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. The constellation formed by the brothers' stories is more complex and engaging than either read alone. Any family story is enriched by multiple perspectives, and even moreso when one is a public figure.
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