Obama shops for books With daughters, buys Jhumpa Lahiri's 'The Lowland'

December 03, 2013 00:12

Reuters reports: President Barack Obama and his daughters, Sasha and Malia, went on what has become an annual book shopping spree on Saturday, stopping at a bookstore to promote an event called Small Business Saturday.

The First Family, in casual dress, stopped traffic in Politics and Prose, a tiny locally-owned store in Northwest Washington.

They took time to mingle with camera-phone wielding shoppers before heading to the checkout.They purchased about two dozen books, including The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Other stories by Carson McCullers, Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews, and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

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