The Question and Answer section for Born a Crime is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The tone is colloquial yet articulate. This opening section highlights how Trevor Noah will interweave personal and political histories throughout the memoir. On one hand, he is telling the story of his own life to an audience who likely already...
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And here was my mother, his tribal enemy, a Xhosa woman alone with two small children—one of them a mixed child, no less. Not just a whore but a whore who sleeps with white men. pg. 27
During apartheid, one of the worst crimes you...
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There were times when we would be in traffic and we had so little money for petrol that I would have to push the car. If we were stuck in gridlock, my mom would turn the car off and it was my job to get out and push it forward six...
