brooke_pearson 's review for:

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

5.0

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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The only part I disliked was that events were told out of order (one chapter he's 18-19 and the next he's back to 9), but it was only confusing for the first page or two, the rest was smooth sailing. Still 5 stars, easy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racial slurs, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation

This isn't really a spoiler but I'll mark it just in case someone gets mad. Most of this is established immediately, the rest (which I vaguely touch on) is explained early on.

There's a lot of him getting "hidings", aka "spankings", but he was honestly pretty fine with it and understood his mom, so that isn't what any of the abuse/toxic stuff refers too