Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah.
Spiegel & Grau, Imprint of Random House, 2016.
Autobiography, 285 pages.
Not leveled.
Purposefully born to a Xhosa mother and a Swiss/German father in South Africa, the act of Trevor Noah’s very birth was a crime in apartheid South Africa, so he spent the first five years of his life inside except for the occasional carefully orchestrated outing. Visibly lighter skinned than his family, but not quite white either, Trevor holds a unique, insider/outsider perspective on the South Africa of his childhood.
I bought this book at Target thanks to my new policy. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t have chosen it on my own. I actually flipped through this book previously and then found a children’s book instead. It was presented like a comedy book, not something I would seek given my unusual taste in humor.
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