Becoming
From the South Side of Chicago to the White House, told by the woman who lived it.
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Le mot de POP LIVRE
Long but easy: the chapters are short and the voice is conversational, closer to someone talking to you than to a political memoir. The Chicago childhood section is the part readers most often say they didn't expect to love.
Présentation
Michelle Obama's memoir begins in a small apartment on the South Side of Chicago and ends in the most photographed house in the world, but its subject is what happens in between: the work of becoming someone. She writes about a father with multiple sclerosis who never missed a day of work, about being the only Black woman in a room of lawyers, about a marriage strained by ambition, about raising two daughters under Secret Service protection. What has made the book so widely read — seventeen million copies worldwide — is its refusal of the official voice: the doubts are left in. This paperback edition adds a new introduction and a letter from the author to her younger self.