'The Light We Carry' is former First Lady Michelle Obama's follow-up to her mega-bestselling memoir, 'Becoming.'
.” Among the reasons it’s not so easy to dismiss are the indefatigable humility of its author and, perhaps more importantly, the resolute necessity of a book like this right now, in this particular moment, for a pandemic-afflicted nation that is politically siloed, socially untethered, emotionally shell-shocked.
In the opening chapter, “The Power of Small,” Obama’s discovery of knitting as a way to quiet her anxiety is relatable and charming, but it’s her simultaneously set and blooming self-awareness that appeals — here and throughout the book. “I was never one for hobbies,” she writes, before sharing that knitting is, in fact, in her DNA. “According to my mother, every woman on her side of the family learned how to work a needle and thread, to sew, crochet, and knit.
I don’t mind it when she enlists her college friend Angela, “a fast-talking kid from D.C. with a ferocious intellect and the preppiest wardrobe I’d ever seen,” to help emphasize the importance of cultivating friendships with folks you might not feel immediately aligned with.
Toward the end of “The Light We Carry,” Obama writes about how paradoxical the human experience can be. She describes lying next to her daughters at bedtime when they were little. “I’d watch them drift off to sleep, their lips parted, the arcs of their little chests rising and falling beneath the sheets, and feel struck by the realization that no matter how much I tried, I’d never know even half their thoughts. We’re alone, each one of us. That’s the ache of being human.
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