MY STORY MICHELLE OBAMA BECOMING

Front Flap: The Intimate, Powerful, and Inspiring Memoirs of the First Lady of the United States As a child, the South Side of Chicago was Michelle Robinson's whole world. She and her brother Craig slept in one room in the family's small apartment and played catch in the park. Her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be straightforward, honest and fearlessly accomplished. But life took her far from there, to Princeton University, where she first experienced what it was like to be the only black woman in the room, and on to the skyscraper where she worked as an energetic corporate lawyer. On the morning of an ordinary summer day, a law student named Barack Obama entered her office and turned all the plans she had carefully planned for the rest of her life. Michelle Obama describes here for the first time the beginning of her married life, how she tried to balance work, family and her husband's soaring political career. She takes us into the intricacies of the discussion th