The Meaning of Michelle Read online

  REBECCA CARROLL

  The Best of Wives and Best of Women

  PHILLIPA SOO

  Making Space

  ROXANE GAY

  Contributor Biographies

  Acknowledgments

  Notes

  Copyright

  THE MEANING OF MICHELLE. Copyright © 2017 by Veronica Chambers; “Two Black First Ladies Walk into a Room” © 2017 by Chirlane McCray; “Cooking with a Narrative” © 2017 Marcus Samuelsson; “Michelle Obama: Representational Justice” © 2017 Sarah Lewis. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover photograph: Michelle Obama © Kwaku Alston/Corbis via Getty Images.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Chambers, Veronica, editor.

  Title: The meaning of Michelle: 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own / edited by Veronica Chambers.

  Description: First edition.|New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, 2017.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016036713|ISBN 9781250114969 (hardback)|ISBN 9781250114976 (e-book)

  Subjects: LCSH: Obama, Michelle, 1964-|Presidents’ spouses—United States—Biography.|BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.|LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.

  Classification: LCC E909.O24 M43 2017|DDC 973.932092 [B]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036713

  e-ISBN 9781250114976

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  First Edition: January 2017