Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

14 reviews

sabrina_d_arcy's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Drug use, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Blood, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Child abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Slavery, Violence, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Abandonment, Antisemitism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Addiction, and Excrement

bookishbabbles's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced

5.0

This book made me laugh, cry and reflect on my own life choices. This is the story of how Trevor Noah became the man he is today and the woman who raised him. I wish I could hug his mother! The story of Trevor Noah is one that feels close to home in many ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Abandonment, Classism, and Police brutality

jnl00700's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Classism, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Bullying, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Abandonment, Addiction, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, Alcohol, Cursing, Xenophobia, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal death

rhys_thomas_sparey's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Few books are so affective, and in such a variety of ways.

It seems cliche to review a book for its ability to make a reader laugh and cry, but it is true that Noah's autobiography achieves both. More than that, it is an inadvertent ethnography of the perseverance of racism and misogyny in post-apartheid South Africa, but in their significantly more complex forms, as well as their historic origins in British and Dutch colonialism. Whether it elaborates on the playground politics of suburban Catholic schools or narrates quite matter-of-factly the extraordinary and dangerous lengths to which him and his mother would go simply to survive, Noah's ability to understand the human spirit at its core and convey his experiences as much with comedy as with tragedy is magnificent and I  recommend it to everybody.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Abandonment