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Trevor Noah
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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.