Michelle Obama announces 10-city book tour

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JOIN ME ON MY BOOK TOUR! www.becomingmichelleobama.com #IAmBecoming I’m from the South Side of Chicago. I went to Princeton and Harvard. I’m a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a sister. I’ve been a lawyer, a nonprofit leader, a hospital executive, and First Lady of the United States. I like to call these my “stats” – the shorthand we all seem to default to whenever we tell our stories. Where are you from? What do you do? What school did you go to? As I’ve written my memoir, BECOMING, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my story, mining it for the kinds of details I’d usually just brush off or even forget about—the narrow taillights of my father’s car, a talk with my mother on a drive home, the heat of my daughter’s forehead when she ran a fever. And in doing so, I’ve realized that those surface-level “stats” don’t really tell my story at all. This fall, I’d like to share that fuller story with all of you on my book tour. It’s the story of my humdrum plainness, my tiny victories, my lasting bruises, my ordinary hopes and worries. It’s the story of who I am, truly, and I’m proud of it—blemishes and all. Go to BecomingMichelleObama.com to find out where I’ll be and how to get tickets. #IAmBecoming I hope to see you somewhere along the way!

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Michelle Obama will head out on the road this November to tour her new book, a memoir titled Becoming. Obama will kick off in her hometown of Chicago on November 13 — the evening of the book's release — and will hit 10-cities across the country.

Through Novmeber until mid-December, the former First Lady will make stops in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Detroit, Denver, San Jose, before concluding in Dallas.

Becoming will cover Obama's roots in Chicago's South Side, and dissect her time as First Lady during Barack Obama's administration, as well as her stories as a woman, a wife, and a mother.

“I’ve spent the last year and a half reflecting on my story as deeply and honestly as I could, and now I’m thrilled to travel the country and do the same with readers this fall,” Obama said in a statement. “I hope that this tour will inspire others to reflect upon and share their own stories—all the joys and sorrows, all the scars and renewals—so that together, we can better recognize that each of us, in our own way, is in a constant process of becoming.”

Tickets for the Becoming book tour will go on sale on Friday September 21 here.

Michelle Obama announces 10-city book tour

In promotion of her new memoir Becoming.

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