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Our Forever First Lady Michelle Obama Is Coming To A City Near You

Tickets for the 10-city book tour will go on sale to the public on September 21.
Michelle Obama's Memoir To Be Released In November 2018: 'I Can’t Wait To Share My Story'
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By Keyaira Boone · Updated December 6, 2020
Want to know how our forever FLOTUS became the woman we love and admire today? You can find out this fall when Michelle Obama goes on her book tour to promote her memoir, Becoming. The former first lady recently announced that her second book will hit bookshelves on November 13, and invited readers to join her on the tour in a video posted on her Facebook page. “The people, and the stories and the experiences, that have helped me and shaped me, and helped me become the person that I am today,” are told in the pages of Becoming, Obama said in the video. The Chicago native is proud of the story that she is telling in the book, she said. “I am proud because it is candid, it is honest, it is totally and utterly me,” she said in the video. She added that she included “the bumps, the bruises, the highs, and the lows,” when telling her remarkable story.
Visit BecomingMichelleObama.com to find out how she went from the South Side to the Ivy League, to securing a permanent place in American history and our hearts. Tickets for the 10-city promotional tour will go on sale on September 21.
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