I read Born a Crime, Trevor Noah's memoir a couple of years ago. Noah just released a young adult version of the book which doesn't remove any of the violence of apartheid or hardship he faced but rather all the swear words. Sonia and I are reading this book together and reading it with her is a very different experience.
He introduces each chapter explaining one of the legal structures or consequences of apartheid then the chapter shows how that structure affected his life. It is tremendously sad. He doesn't spend any time in this book explaining how he becomes famous so when it ends you can't even imagine how he got from there to here. Maybe he'll write another book?
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