Sublime

relished the swerve.

Still, this wasn’t enough to insulate Michelle from the wildly unrealistic and often contradictory social pressures that women with children absorbed from the media, their peers, their employers, and, of course, the men in their lives.

was a box checker—marching to the resolute beat of effort/result, effort/result—a

motorcade, the agents, the aides, and the media, with me at