This week's book review. Memoirs can be truly powerful reads, and Hunger was one of the most soul-connecting I’ve read in a long time.

Becoming, by Michelle Obama Hold the political beliefs—I love reading about empowered women of all belief systems and backgrounds, plain and simple. Said and done…next! I have to say, as a white woman reading this no-holds-barred autobiography, I learned that I cannot even fathom what it was like to grow up in a black community and face this America as a black woman. The stereotyping. The being told she wasn’t “Princeton material.” The fear and hatred. It’s hurtful that anyon