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Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir,” by Ursula M. Burns.

Why you should read it: Ursula M. Burns is the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and in her 2021 memoir she looks back on her life and her successful career at Xerox. The book is full of her insights on corporate life, the value of workers, and touches on topics such as racial and economic justice and how she believes greed is threatening American democracy. The book is part memoir, part cultural critique, told through the eyes of a woman who journeyed from tenement housing in New York City to the highest pillars of corporate America.