TREVOR NOAH is the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show. He first joined the show as a contributor in 2014 and succeeded Jon Stewart as host in 2015. While The Daily Show has introduced Noah to an American audience, he's long been a popular comedian around the globe. Born in South Africa to a black South African mother and a white European father, Noah rose improbably to stardom with The Racist, his one-man show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which enjoyed a sold-out run and became one of the most talked-about shows at the festival that year. He made his US television debut that year on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, becoming the first South African stand-up comedian to appear on either late-night program. He lives in New York.
An engaging, fast-paced and vivid read . . . Essential reading not
only because it is a personal story of survival, leavened with
insight and wit, but because it does more to expose apartheid - its
legacy, its pettiness, its small-minded stupidity and its damage -
than any other recent history book or academic text
*GUARDIAN*
It's no surprise that Trevor Noah, the slyly suave successor to Jon
Stewart as host of The Daily Show, should write a smart book. But
'smart' doesn't begin to cover what he pulls off in Born a Crime .
. . Noah's memoir is extraordinary . . . essential reading on every
level. It's hard to imagine anyone else doing a finer job of it
*SEATTLE TIMES*
Powerful... The story of his life is full of chase scenes in which
he runs, hell for leather, from spankings, from the long arm of the
law, and from the swinging fist of his stepfather... a unique
perspective
*THE TIMES*
A soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and
perilous turns, reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly
conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through
the bullying and ostracism . . . is an enormous gift
*USA TODAY*
A BOOK TO READ NOW
*WALL STREET JOURNAL*
A memoir with heft... The interracial coupling that produced him
really was a crime, making him an outsider. But he thrives with the
help of his astonishingly fearless mother. (At one point she tosses
him from a moving car -- driven by gangsters -- to save his life.)
However brutal South African history is, their fierce bond makes
this story soar
*PEOPLE, Best New Books*
Noah has a real story to tell -- and tells it well... A little
scary, but trust me -- it's funny
*NEWSDAY*
An affecting memoir. . . a love letter to his mother
*WASHINGTON POST*
Mind-blowing as f***
*COSMOPOLITAN*
Noah proves a gifted storyteller, deftly lacing his poignant tales
with amusing irony
*ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY*
Incisive, funny, and vivid, these staggering true tales are
anchored to Noah's portrait of his courageous, rebellious, and
religious mother who defied racially restrictive laws to secure an
education and a career for herself - and to have a child with a
white Swiss/German even though sex between whites and blacks was
illegal. . . . Trevor Noah's electrifying memoir sparkles with
funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen
our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class
*BOOKLIST*
A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social
criticism . . . and brilliant storytelling and acute
observations
*KIRKUS*
Sharp, at times harrowing ... The Daily Show host Trevor Noah
reveals his coming-of-age as the son of protective interracial
parents in apartheid South Africa
*HARPER'S BAZAAR*
Humble, candid and funny
*ELLE (South Africa)*
Thoughtful, observant and empathetic...a warm and human story of
the type we will need to survive the Trump presidency's imminent
freezing of humane values
*MAIL & GUARDIAN (South Africa)*
Compelling . . . By turns alarming, sad, and funny, his book
provides a harrowing look through the prism of Noah's family, at
life in South Africa under apartheid and the country's lurching
entry into a post-apartheid era in the 1990s . . . Born a Crime is
not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under
apartheid, but a love letter to the author's remarkable mother
*New York Times*
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