BOOK REVIEW
Celebrity memoirs are often like fondant-covered cakes, laboured to blemish-free visual perfection, but dry on the within. In Becoming ‘Michelle Obama’ can sometimes be accused of the identical, but where she is ‘Michelle Robinson’ that black girl growing up in the rough and tumble of Southside Chicago, she serves up an account with such honesty and rawness that the book can only compared with a Christmas pudding- rich, deep and authentic. While the later a part of her life is fairly known, the primary third of the book honestly explains who she is; anchoring her to the role she will eventually play.
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| "Becoming" a book by Michelle Obama [Photo Courtesy: Goodreads] |
Growing up under modest circumstances, her father was a blue-collar worker at a water filtration plant and her mother used to stay at home. Robinson use to remain in an apartment above her great aunt and uncle. This aunt taught piano to the youngsters in the neighbourhood. However, because the book unfolds with the story of Michelle Robinson a young black woman who is very determined and clear about her thoughts and vision. This book Becoming- is split into three sections that are – Me, Us, and More, where Obama offers the readers the highlight reels of her life slowing right down to great detail in certain parts and zooming past in great rush through others.
So much had happened after everything had been documented, although in Michelle’s telling lies, the authenticity of the trouble of Barack Obama’s career and their joint struggle to maintain a family life together with his entry in the book as well as in her life, Michelle is reduced to a supporting role. She dislikes politics but throws herself into what's required of her, crisscrossing the country to campaign and shaking hands with strangers, soaring when praised, bitter when criticized. After she became the primary lady, she recollects the memories of sitting within the House of Representatives and waiting for Barack Obama to address a joint session of the congress.
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| Quote from the book "Becoming" [Photo Courtesy: google/shanayatales ] |
For someone who has been described as “most outspoken First Lady” Michelle steers well beyond much political talk. For all that it reveals Becoming is far more significant for what it does not. Readers who expect an analysis of what has possibly gone wrong in a post Obama America, then they're going to be utterly disappointed.
Author
Subhanki Das
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