Becoming by Michelle ObamaMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
How can I do justice in a review of this remarkable book? This huge tapestry spread over 430 large pages of small print. The story of this iconic American woman, her story, beautifully composed - full of love, hope, endeavour and achievement. An intimate, powerful and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of The United States.
From the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother Craig shared a bedroom; where her parents Fraser and Marian Robinson raised her to be outspoken and unafraid and from whom she learned the importance of education. Michelle graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and started her career as an attorney at the Chicago law firm Sidley and Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama. She recounts the struggle to balance her work and family with her husband's fast-moving political career, nurturing her daughters Malia and Sasha, gives a behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight and life inside the White House, with some wonderful anecdotes about meeting our Queen Elizabeth. This alone endeared me to her.
Michelle Obama tells her story with honesty and boldness and has my unbounded admiration. I recommend Becoming without reservation.
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