The 2024 Grammys were full of winners, including Michelle Obama for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording for her third memoir, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” per People. The New York Times Bestseller beat out work by Bernie Sanders, Meryl Streep, Rick Rubin, and William Shatner, and even earned Obama an Emmy nod for her Netflix special with Oprah Winfrey. In the book, Obama offers advice for her readers and shared with People, “These are the things I say to myself when I need to pick myself up. This is how I stay visible in a world that doesn’t necessarily see a tall Black woman. This is how I stay armored up when I’m attacked. The book is that offering.”
During the special “The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey,” the former FLOTUS shared that the idea for the book came out of many asking her for advice. “They’re always asking me how have I done this. ‘How’d you get here? How’d you overcome your fear?’ And so I’d already been grappling with these questions, thinking, ‘Well, when I get an opportunity to talk to kids — which I do occasionally. I still spend a lot of time talking to kids — I try to answer those questions but I can only connect with so many kids,” Obama revealed. Although she didn’t accept her Grammys in person, she did make a surprise appearance at the 2019 ceremony that had the audience on their feet.
