Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama | 2022 | Ashley Woodfolk | Buy |
Opening My Eyes Underwater (2022) is Ashley Woodfolk’s nonfiction essay collection. The subtitle, “Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama,” describes the book’s focus. Woodfolk uses moments from Michelle Obama’s life and public career as starting points for her own reflections on identity, ambition, and what it means to be a Black woman in America.
The essays are personal and accessible, written in the same direct voice that marks Woodfolk’s fiction. Readers who appreciate her novels will find a more personal side of the author in these pages.