Cover of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

History & Lives · First published 2016

Born a Crime

by Trevor NoahSouth Africa

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Trevor Noah's memoir of growing up in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa as the son of a Black mother and a white father.

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