The Meaning of Michelle

  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