Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

i felt somehow grateful and sure i made a good choice to start the yeear reading Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. it was such a good book.

in what feels like light reading, it was serious enough to talk about apartheid from a boy who experienced it all, the hardships and the ‘almost like going through math problems’ calculated choices he made just because of the skin he has.

i appreciated how he starts a chapter with an educated article on the history and the basis of why things happened the way they are, before going to share a real life experience that reflects the message he wanted to share about earlier on. it is such an honest autobiography.

i also grow to love his mother too. i admire that grit and strong determination she had throughout her life,is beyond words. a rebel but towards positivity, because she wanted to make a better life. a strict mother out of pure love. and God is with her through that shooting ordeal. it was one word. miracle.

it is already in the list of books i dont mind rereading if all else fails.

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