We owe a big part of the renaissance of the written word in recent months to Michelle Obama's memoir, “Becoming.” I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming” has sold nearly 10 million copies globally across print, e-books, and audiobook… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sara Germano (@germanotes) March 26, 2019I’m blasting thru this Michelle Obama book and i miss her 🥺🥺🥺
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troye (@troyesivan) March 27, 2019****
Sales of @MichelleObama's Becoming and "substantial" growth for audiobooks drove revenues up at Penguin Random Hous… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Bookseller (@thebookseller) March 26, 2019Michelle Obama's autobiography is on course to become the most successful memoir in publishing history, after selli… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 27, 2019****
Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sells 10 million copies cbsn.ws/2Ou9ylA https://t.co/Z0uOHOZzYL
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CBS News (@CBSNews) March 27, 2019Our forever FLOTUS is continuing to make history! 💪🏾 essence.com/entertainment/…
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ESSENCE (@Essence) March 27, 2019.@MichelleObama opens up to @RobinRoberts in revealing new interview; says she felt "lost and alone” after sufferin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 09, 2018****
Krissah Thompson: In Revealing New Memoir, Michelle Obama Candidly Shares Her Story
As Michelle Obama’s highly anticipated memoir “Becoming” arrives, it’s clear that the former first lady is occupying a space in the culture beyond politics. “I don’t think anybody will be necessarily prepared to read a memoir like this — especially coming from a first lady,” said Shonda Rhimes, the television producer, who read an advance copy of Obama’s book. The first-lady memoir is a rite of passage, but Obama’s is different by virtue of her very identity. “Becoming” takes her historic status as the first black woman to serve as first lady and melds it deftly into the American narrative. She writes of the common aspects of her story and — as the only White House resident to count an enslaved great-great-grandfather as an ancestor — of its singular sweep. “The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks,” she writes. “What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.”
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.@MichelleObama to @RobinRoberts: "I think it's the worst thing that we do to each other as women, not share the tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 09, 2018****
She divides the memoir into three parts: Becoming Me, Becoming Us, Becoming More. The first section is a deep, often sociological exploration of Chicago and the people and institutions there. Its textured discussion of gentrification, public education, race and class are reminders that Obama majored in sociology and minored in African American studies at Princeton University. The second section, Becoming Us, is a romp through her romance with Barack Obama, starting a family with him and her search for work that she loved. It begins with words that have never before been written by a first lady about her man: “As soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for Barack, the feelings came rushing — a toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” She also shares intimate details for the first time, for instance, that she and her husband had trouble getting pregnant, suffered a miscarriage, and that both daughters were conceived through in vitro fertilization. And that she did a great deal of this while her husband was away serving in the state legislature, leaving her to administer the shots that are a part of that process herself.
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