Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

3.5/5
It started out brilliantly, but the last few chapters changed in tone and were something of a downer to end on. For the most part, though, it's insightful and irreverent, and Trevor Noah knows exactly how to make light of a bad situation while still getting you to take it seriously (no easy task!). It was especially fascinating for me, as we're almost the same age, grew up in the same city, but had such different experiences. He even went to the high school where my Aunt taught, and where I knew a few other pupils, but our lives could not have been more different. It's especially fascinating because his experience as a mixed-race child was so different from pretty much anybody else's, black, white or coloured.

I'd have liked to find out a bit about how he got into doing comedy. That's literally not covered at all except in a passing sentence.

I'd have given this 4/5 if it hadn't been for the change in tone at the end, but I'd still absolutely recommend it. Get the audiobook as narrated by him, because he does all the accents and voices, and it's great.