I’m not minority, but I was a first-generation college student from a working-class background, and I found things to relate to as well. As I read the early parts of her story, I kept switching back and forth from thinking “Yeah, I know what she’s talking about. I’ve been there, too” to “This is uniquely part of the African American experience. This is new to me.”
@CupCakeMuffins ticket prices are always going to vary from venue to venue and then within the venue. I think I paid $50ish but Ticketmaster fees for each of our tickets in Detroit.
I am not a minority—but I grew up in a working class immigrant family and was the first to go to college/grad school. I related to much of what MO described about her early years. Plus, I spent every holiday and most summers with my cousins who lived in the South Side of Chicago. Her description of white flight fueled by real estate brokers was spot on! I am halfway through her book and really enjoying it.
I really liked the book. Very different experience from me but I could relate on the level of growing up with a father who had MS and how that skews your thinking about life and the future, always planning/working hard to get to the next step and her line that was something about thinking her worrying could form a protective wall around those she loved (really paraphrasing here but I remember the what she meant and I do the same, act like worrying is some sort of proactive protection.). I like and appreciate her optimism in a frequently pessimistic world and her high road attitude in the face of vicious insults.
Although I have not read anything written by any POTUS or their spouses, I think Michelle Obama is pretty cool person and down to earth. I grew up as an Asian immigrant under poor parents lacking college or even high school education, so I admire self-made people. Looking back, the only thing that saved me was my mom’s love for me. Don’t know how I would have turned out without a mom like her. May she RIP.