Everything You Need to Know About Michelle Obama's Upcoming Book Tour

Michelle Obama shared a first look at her book's cover in May, writing, "The process of writing this book has been so personally meaningful and illuminating for me. As I prepare to share Becoming this Fall, I hope you'll also think about your own story, and trust that it will help you become whoever you aspire to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

The former first lady announced details about her book tour in September, and she shared some of what she learned through the book-writing process on social media. Alongside a video, she wrote:

I'm from the South Side of Chicago. I went to Princeton and Harvard. I'm a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a sister. I've been a lawyer, a nonprofit leader, a hospital executive, and First Lady of the United States.

I like to call these my "stats" — the shorthand we all seem to default to whenever we tell our stories. Where are you from? What do you do? What school did you go to?

As I've written my memoir, Becoming, I've spent a lot of time thinking about my story, mining it for the kinds of details I'd usually just brush off or even forget about — the narrow taillights of my father's car, a talk with my mother on a drive home, the heat of my daughter's forehead when she ran a fever. And in doing so, I've realised that those surface-level "stats" don't really tell my story at all.

This Fall, I'd like to share that fuller story with all of you on my book tour. It's the story of my humdrum plainness, my tiny victories, my lasting bruises, my ordinary hopes and worries. It's the story of who I am, truly, and I'm proud of it — blemishes and all.