It took me so long to read this because it quite honestly wrecked me. I can’t remember the last time I cried so much. In the last four years I’ve become so numb to and divorced from the reality of having people in the White House who actually care about others that reading about it just opened the floodgates.
Michelle Obama writes beautifully about her life, career, politics in America, what it’s like to live in the White House, the kind of expectations you have to live with when you’re the First Lady, and none of it is simple or easy to read. This is a book to SIT with.
Despite how sad it made me feel though, it reminded me of the fight we need to keep having even though we are all so, so tired. And she ends the book with a dose of optimism, a pep talk even, that I know I really needed.
So thank you Mrs. and Mr. Obama for all you’ve done for this country. It mattered.