This Is Why We Love Michelle Obama

The real star of her new memoir is a small, crowded apartment on Euclid Avenue in the South Side of Chicago

Morgan Jerkins
ZORA
Published in
4 min readNov 27, 2018

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November 13, 2018—Michelle Obama holds her first book signing in her hometown of Chicago. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty

Michelle Obama’s decade in the public eye has made her an icon every bit as much as it has her husband. Her beauty, style, down-to-earth sensibility, and grace in the face of a constant barrage of racist and sexist ridicule has…

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Morgan Jerkins
ZORA
Writer for

Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a New York Times bestselling author. Her debut novel, “Caul Baby,” will be published by Harper in April 2021.