Author
Trevor Noah
We've read and reviewed Trevor Noah's memoir and coming of age book Born a Crime on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa is funnier and stranger than its premise lets on. Eighteen linked essays turn a childhood spent partly in hiding into a sharp, generous portrait of language, survival, and one ferociously willful mother.