"Nairobi to Shenzhen"

This looks like it would be an interesting book even if Ndesandjo wasn't Barack's half brother.

From the Associated Press...

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. Like his novel's main character, Ndesandjo had an American mother who is Jewish and who divorced his Kenyan father.

Ndesandjo, who is an American citizen, spent most of his childhood in Kenya before moving to the U.S. to go to college and work in telecommunications and marketing. He has a bachelor's degree from Brown University in physics and a master's degree in the same subject from Stanford University. He also earned an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta.

Ndesandjo moved to China after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when his job was cut in the rocky U.S. economy. He taught English, immersed himself in the study of Chinese culture and volunteered as a piano teacher at an orphanage. He now speaks Mandarin and earns a living as a consultant in strategic marketing.