Becoming

The intimate, powerful, and inspiring autobiography of the former First Lady of the United States. With her significant and fulfilling life, Michelle Obama has become one of the most compelling and impressive women of our time. As First Lady, she was the first African American to hold this position and played a crucial role in creating the most welcoming and open White House in the country's history. At the same time, she became a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, driving the much-needed social change towards a healthier and more active lifestyle in family policy, while supporting her husband as he led America through some of the nation's most painful moments. Along the way, she also showed us a few dance moves, shined in "Carpool Karaoke," and managed to raise two down-to-earth daughters amidst the relentless media spotlight.

Her autobiography is reflective and simultaneously filled with captivating stories. Michelle Obama takes us into her world and shares all the experiences that have shaped her into the person she is today—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as a lawyer and executive, where she had to balance motherhood with her career, to her time at the most famous address in the world. Ruthlessly honest and with a sharp wit, she writes about both her great successes and her disappointments, both private and public. She tells her unique life story—in her own words and in her own way. Warm-hearted, wise, and unfiltered, "Becoming" is the unusually intimate memoir of a woman with heart and substance, a woman who has persistently defied the expectations placed upon her—and whose story is one worth telling.