We will discuss, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah on April 9, 2019
The compelling,
inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one
man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the
tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
Trevor Noah’s unlikely
path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began
with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father
and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by
five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor
was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the
extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a
government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated
by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his
mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and
embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born
a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a
restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he
was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s
relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious
mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle
of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own
life.
The eighteen personal essays collected here are by turns
hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on
caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving
car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the
life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his
curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories
weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy
making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only
with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional
love.
--Goodreads: Source: penguinrandomhouse.ca
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