Michelle Obama's memoir chronicles her experience at the White House

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February 26, 2018 10:22 AM

Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her to her time spent at the White House.

Fans of the former first lady of the United States of America will get to buy her memoir titled “Becoming,” in print and digital formats in the U.S. and Canada.

This announcement was made by publishing company Penguin Random House on Sunday, February 25, 2017.

The book will simultaneously be published in two dozen languages worldwide including an audio edition.

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address.

With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations and whose story inspires us to do the same.

Having grown up in a modest Chicago neighbourhood, Obama defied a teacher’s advice that she was “setting (her) sights too high,” applying and getting accepted into Princeton University, then earned a Harvard Law School degree. She met Barack Obama while he was an intern and her his adviser at a Chicago law firm, and they were soon married. She became his closest confidante during his political rise.

Obama’s only previous book “American Grown,” about the White House garden was published in 2013.

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