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A review by lilgrizzles
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
5.0
You have to go into this book realizing that Trevor Noah is not trying to apologise or explain away the bad things he did. In this book, Trevor writes about these moments that seem surreal and out of place to anyone who is white because we just cannot fathom how someone could live such a life, because it is so different from our own. How could someone do what he did, and not be a "bad person"?
Trevor does a masterful job of explaining his life from his point of view, trying to show the details without the romanticism of his life.
There were many times that I realized that my western white bias was real, and the way my world worked is not the same for him. For that, being abke to see a true view into his world was fascinating and enlightening. It was funny, heartfelt, and just plain weird sometimes. Great read.
Trevor does a masterful job of explaining his life from his point of view, trying to show the details without the romanticism of his life.
There were many times that I realized that my western white bias was real, and the way my world worked is not the same for him. For that, being abke to see a true view into his world was fascinating and enlightening. It was funny, heartfelt, and just plain weird sometimes. Great read.