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AND THEN LIFE HAPPENS By: Auma Obama
St. Martin's Press
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
352 pages ISBN: 1250010055 EAN: 9781250010056 Kindle: B007FU7X6C Hardcover / e-Book
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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 Obamaβs childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblingsβ 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 Aumaβs support for her brotherβs 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: βI hugged her, we looked at each other, and laughed. I knew right then that I loved her.β
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