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Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNovember 13, 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMichelle Obama\u003c\/b\u003e served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Mrs. Obama started her career as an attorney at the Chicago law firm Sidley \u0026amp; Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama. She later worked in the Chicago mayor’s office, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Chicago Medical Center. 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Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. 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Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors’ tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world that would be allegorical if it weren’t saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, Cannonball Greene, they never know what harm may befall them: inhumane physical toil in the plantation’s quarry by day, a beating by night, or the sale of a loved one at any moment. It’s that cruel practice—the wanton destruction of love, the belief that Black people aren’t even capable of loving—that hurts the most.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt hurts the reserved and stubborn William, who finds himself falling for Margaret, a small but mighty woman with self-possession beyond her years. And it hurts Cato, whose first love, Iris, was sold off with no forewarning. He now finds solace in his hearty band of friends, including William, who is like a brother; Margaret; Little Zander; and Milton, a gifted artist. There is also Pandora, with thick braids and long limbs, whose beauty calls to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir relationships begin to fray when a visiting minister with a mysterious past starts to fill their heads with ideas about independence. He tells them that with freedom comes the right to choose the small things—when to dine, when to begin and end work—as well as the big things, such as whom and how to love. Do they follow the preacher and pursue the unknown? Confined in a landscape marked by deceit and uncertainty, who can they trust?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an elegant work of monumental imagination that will reorient how we think of the legacy of America’s shameful past, Jabari Asim presents a beautiful, powerful, and elegiac novel that examines intimacy and longing in the quarters while asking a vital question: What would happen if an enslaved person risked everything for love?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__gradientOverlay\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003eJanuary 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Button__container\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAn accomplished poet, playwright, and writer, Jabari Asim has been described as one of the most influential African American literary critics of his generation. Asim has served as the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine—the NAACP’s flagship journal of politics, culture, and ideas— and as an editor at The Washington Post, where he wrote a syndicated column on politics, popular culture, and social issues. His writing has appeared in Essence, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The New Republic, American Prospect, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts and is the author of eight books for adults—including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eYonder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—and thirteen books for children. His debut book of poems, Stop and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"x_gmail- link-hover\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/jabariasim.org\/portfolio\/stop-and-frisk\/. 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