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And Then Life Happens
Auma Obama
St. Martin's Press
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 1250010055
EAN: 9781250010056
Kindle: B007FU7X6C
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and
Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama.
While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and
Indonesia, Auma Obama’s childhood played out at the other
end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the
birthplace of the siblings’ shared father. Barack and Auma
met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a
lasting relationship which lead to travels together in
Kenya, research into their family history and finally Auma’s
support for her brother’s political career and eventual bid
for the U.S. presidency. Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany,
moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter
there. The tension between her original and chosen worlds
and cultures was a constant challenge, and eventually Auma
returned to Africa and worked to support young men and women
in shaping their futures. In And Then Life Happens, her candid and emotional memoir,
Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and
experiences with her famous brother, who says about their
first encounter: “I hugged her, we looked at each other, and
laughed. I knew right then that I loved her.”
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