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Nancy Keane's | Booktalks -- Quick and Simple | |
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Noah, Trevor.
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Booktalk #1 The title of this great, funny memoir is no exaggeration. Under South African apartheid law, it was illegal for any black person to have a relationship with a white person. Trevor Noah’s mother is black; his father, white. The minute he was born, he became evidence of a crime. This is the story of growing up under apartheid rule, and the period shortly after. This is a witty, real look into the world of apartheid and what it was like growing up in between two, neither of which fully accepts you. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2017-2018) Booktalk #2 Why would a mother throw her child out of a moving car? And why would the popular 90's rap song This is How We Do It by Montell Jordan be the perfect soundtrack for this twisted tale? This debut memoir Born a Crime by Emmy Award winning comedian Trevor Noah will answer those questions and more. Born in South Africa during apartheid to an African woman and a Swiss father, even his very existence was against the law in a government where races were mandated by law to be kept separate. This true story of how he grew up on the DL will make readers of any age laugh and cry in equal parts, sometimes doing both simultaneously. Most of all this critical story shines much needed light on the history and practice of institutionalized racism and how far reaching it can be. This is a revolutionary memoir. Period. --Kathleen Dunbar Eastlake High School Library Evergreen Book Award Nominees 2018-19 |
| SUBJECTS: Autobiographies. Comedians -- South Africa -- Biography. Comedians -- United States -- Biography. Noah, Trevor, 1984- -- Television personalities -- United States -- Biography. |
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