Book written by Obama's mother - Ann Dunham - to be published

Book written by Obama's mother to be published
Posted: 06:15 PM ET

From CNN's Lauren Kornreich

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A book written by President Obama's mother, who died of cancer in 1995, will be published in December, Duke Press announced Monday.

The book is based on Ann Dunham's 14-year research on the metalworking industry in rural Java, an island in Indonesia. Two anthropologists are revising and editing her dissertation into a book, called "Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia."

Dunham died of cancer in 1995, but finished her dissertation for the University of Hawaii in 1992. Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's sister, said she was "delighted" that her mother's book is being published.

"My hope is that this book will be read by those who come to love the particularities of its world and who also see the myriad potential application of its ideas and methods to other worlds," Soetoro-Ng said in a statement

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.... is because of this wonderful woman.

Behold! The hand that rocks the cradle (and sets the alarm clock for 5am) truly does rule the world!

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I look at the pieces in my house and would like to think that one of the reasons they are here, one of the reasons they were availible for my friend to import on a fair trade basis was Ann Dunham and her work in Indonesia.

My friend tells me it is a facinating place culturally.