![]() ![]() “In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air, / any thing can be made, any sentence begun. “Say it plain: that many have died for this day,” she read that day. Alexander, a friend of the Obamas, previously composed and read Praise Song for the Day for Obama’s inauguration in 2009. Michelle Obama also revealed her top read of the year to People, picking Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir, The Light of the World, in which the poet writes about the sudden death of her husband. Groff later told Buzzfeed: “Never, even in my most grandiose dreams, did I think the president would read my book, let alone like it. The novelist, learning of his choice, tweeted: “I just died, came back to life, read again, died again. The US president, who last month picked up Jonathan Franzen’s Purity and Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights from a local bookshop, told People magazine that Groff’s novel topped his list of books read this year. ![]()
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