Obama starts vacation with new summer book

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. - In the first full day of a Martha's Vineyard vacation, President Obama set aside some of the cares of office Friday to work on his family's summer reading list.

At a bookstore in this upscale New England resort, Obama chose for his daughters a fiction classic set in the Jim Crow South - and for himself a sprawling summer epic about the downfall of a family that moves from the Midwest to Washington.

Parallels anyone?

Obama - wearing a polo shirt and ball cap - emerged from the Bunch of Grapes bookstore carrying a brown paper bag and preceded by Sasha, 9, and Malia, 12, who's rejoined the family after her first summer camp.

Inside the bag was "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen, aides reported. The novel portrays a family of urban homesteaders in St. Paul, Minn., who decamp to the nation's capital. It's not on sale yet, but the store gave him an advance copy.

For the girls, the president bought two volumes: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee and

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