This evening, I started reading Dreams from My Father, the autobiographical book by the young lawyer Barack Obama. It has been startling good so far, and I think it's the best book that I've read dealing with cross-culturedness or TCK's since Third-Culture Kids, which I also loved. It is a book that is rather frank and very open and reminds me again why the President's story speaks to so many people, even those who disagree with his policies.
A few brief thought-excerpts that struck me in my personal journey and the journey I see others in:
"...the fluid state of identity- the leaps through time, the collision of cultures- that mark our modern life." (vii)
"... [my past] speaks to those aspects of myself that resist conscious choice and that- on the surface, at least- contradict the world I now occupy." (xiv)
"I enjoyed such moments [of companionship]- but only in brief. If the talk began to wander, or cross the border into familiarity, I would soon find reason to excuse myself. I had grown too comfortable in my solitude, the safest place I knew." (4)
31 July 2010
Dreams from my Father
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