![]() The way Trevor talks about race and racism is shocking and spot-on. This forced him to stay inside, hiding away from police, until apartheid finally ended. Trevor’s mother was black, but his father was white, which led Trevor to be classified as “colored” or mixed race. Trevor was born during the era of apartheid in South Africa, a system of institutionalized racial segregation that made his very existence illegal – hence the name of this book. Members of his family feel real not just because of how well Trevor portrays them, but because we see bits of our own relatives in them.īut Born a Crime also delves into deeper subjects surrounding racism, domestic abuse, poverty, and governmental issues. Many of his childhood antics feel like things we or people we know could have done. Trevor’s story is at once relatable and stunning. Through it all, we get to know not only Trevor, but also his family, his country, and the culture of his home. Born a Crime takes us through his childhood, showing us the funny times, the horrible times, and everything in between. But before his rise to fame around the world, he grew up poor and literally illegal. Most people know Trevor Noah as the host of The Daily Show and for his work as a comedian. This is also only the third memoir I’ve read, in some ways comparable to American Chica, about a Peruvian American girl growing up in two disparate cultures in the 1950s. ![]() All the others took place in different countries around the continent: Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, and the northernmost countries bordering the Mediterranean. And out of them, only one, The Apartment, was set in South Africa. I’ve only read a few other books – all novels – set in Africa. ![]() Trevor himself narrates the audiobook version of Born a Crime. After listening to my first audiobook, The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad, I decided to dive into one of the memoirs I’d been coveting: Trevor Noah’s 2016 memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. While I haven’t slowed down with procuring physical books, I have added audiobooks to my world. Two years ago, my mother gave me a Kindle, thinking it would help with my book obsession. ![]()
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