Becoming Micheel Obama

Becoming is the memoir of former United States first lady Michelle Obama published in 2018.^[1]^[2] Described by the author as a deeply personal experience,^[3] the book talks about her roots and how she found her voice, as well as her time in the White House, her public health campaign, and her role as a mother.^[4] The book is published by Crown and was released in 24 languages.^[4] One million copies were donated to First Book, an American nonprofit organization which provides books to children.^[4

The book's 24 chapters (plus a preface and epilogue) are divided into three sections: Becoming Me, Becoming Us, and Becoming More. Becoming Me traces Obama's early life growing up on the South Side of Chicago with her parents - Fraser and Marian Robinson in an upstairs apartment. There, Obama shared a bedroom with her brother Craig.^[8] The book continues through her education at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, to her early career as a lawyer at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met Barack Obama. Becoming Us departs from the beginning of their romantic relationship and follows their marriage, the beginning of his political career in the Illinois State Senate. The book shares Obama's balance between her position as the first African American First Lady of the United States of America, her motherly duties, and marital commitments.^[8] The section ends with election night in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States Becoming More takes the readers through Barack Obama's presidency, Michelle Obama's focus on her Let's Move campaign, and her role of "head mom in chief" to her two daughters - Malia and Sasha Obama, along with the other aspects of the Obama's life as first family.^[9]