New novel ‘Nairobi to Shenzhen’ is patterned in part on Barack Obama Sr.
Ben Curtis / AP file
A photograph of Barack Obama Sr., father of President Barack Obama, hangs on the wall of his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama's house near the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya. "My father beat my mother and my father beat me," Obama's half brother said in an interview.
updated 7:29 p.m. ET, Tues., Nov . 3, 2009
GUANGZHOU, China - President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir. Read more at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33608282/ns/today-white_house/?gt1=43001
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