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Born a Crime
His mother threw him out of a moving car to save his life and then laughed about it on the way to church. Trevor Noah's childhood is genuinely unbelievable.
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Patricia's Son
Trevor Noah's 2016 memoir follows his childhood in South Africa, where his mother is Black Xhosa and his father is white Swiss. Under apartheid, their relationship was illegal and Trevor's birth was a criminal act. He grew up between worlds: too light for the Black township, too dark for white South Africa, navigating identity, language, and survival with his extraordinary, fierce, deeply religious mother Patricia. The book is as much a portrait of her as it is his own story. It became a bestseller in over twenty countries and was praised for making apartheid legible through one family's experience.


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Reading Born a Crime
3 Comic
4 Vivid
3 Clever
3 Awkward
5 Shocking
4 Complex

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We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine.


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Noah wrote the book while already a year into hosting The Daily Show, which he had taken over from Jon Stewart in 2015. He wanted to tell stories that American audiences would not encounter elsewhere.
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The title refers to the actual legal status of Trevor's birth under South Africa's Immorality Act, which made sexual relations between races a criminal offence. His parents faced potential imprisonment for having him.


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