Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

One of the best audiobooks I've listened to. Trevor Noah's childhood is akin to the favelas shown in “City of God”. The detail is rich. We move back and forth through the first quarter of his life and the way the story is structured is something to be marvelled at. He brings so much heart into that story that even if you are like me, an urban-dwelling, middle-class guy from India, you could still resonate with the stories. We have our fair share of prejudices, old grannies, ass-whipping mothers, car troubles etc. The part where he geeks out about girls or tech is so relatable, esp his CD piracy days for, ahem, we used to deal in that when we were in school here. That was the only way we consumed foreign stuff and we revelled in it. Not like now when I have Netflix, Prime, YOutube etc.

I was laughing where Trevor wanted me to, I bawled when he wanted me to. He had the story and my heart in his hands and he was twisting every emotion. I will now stop rambling and youtube like crazy where the characters of his story are now.

Trevor! Sun'qhela