… tragedy during her days as first lady. After the Newtown shooting of 20 first-graders, Obama wrote that she couldn’t bring herself to travel there with her husband, but instead stayed home and clung to her children. ‘I was so shaken by it that I had no strength available to lend.'”
“But she’s most compelling in the book’s first third, ‘Becoming Me,’ an affectionate portrait of a no-nonsense upbringing in which money was tight and love was abundant. Her touching descriptions of her late, hardworking father Fraser Robinson — young Michelle loved to ride in his beloved Buick Electra 225, leaning on the headrest so her face could be next to his.”
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