
Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime" - a hilarious yet profound memoir of growing up biracial during apartheid South Africa. Endorsed by Jill Biden as required college reading and inspiring Senator Duckworth's own memoir, this bestseller explores identity while Lupita Nyong'o prepares to star as Noah's resilient mother.
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Born in 1984 South Africa, Trevor Noah entered the world as literal evidence of a crime. Under apartheid's brutal regime, his very existence - the child of a Black Xhosa mother and white Swiss/German father - was punishable by five years in prison. Apartheid wasn't merely segregation; it was a meticulously engineered system that divided people into rigid racial categories: Black, white, Indian, and "colored" (mixed race). Trevor's mother Patricia, a fiercely independent woman, had deliberately chosen to have a child with Robert, a Swiss expatriate, despite knowing the consequences. "This is my country. Why should I leave?" she would say when others suggested fleeing abroad. Living as a mixed-race child meant Trevor couldn't walk publicly with either parent. With his mother, he sometimes walked behind a colored woman who pretended to be his mother while Patricia walked behind like a maid. During visits to Soweto, he was kept indoors to avoid police and informants. In a world meticulously designed to separate people, Trevor existed in the spaces between - neither fully belonging to his father's world nor his mother's. Yet this liminal existence would become his greatest strength, teaching him to navigate between worlds and adapt to any situation - skills that would later define his career and worldview.
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