It’s a glaring lack in the narrative...Bill Ayres, clever as he thought he was, wasn’t perfect. And maybe he wasn’t told the full story either. There was nothing in the book about Seattle.
Considering that we are expected to believe she was at that university for quite a considerable length of time, why wasn’t that included?
If SAD had been there, Ayers would have documented it. He needed a few hooks of truth upon which to hang the fantasy. The fact he never mentioned it, and in fact, it was not mentioned by anyone in that camp until someone found the notation of Anna Obama in the Polk Directory is quite telling. Then a back story had to be invented.