Noah's memoir of growing up in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa begins with the fact of his birth in 1984: a Black Xhosa mother, Patricia, and a white Swiss-German father, a union that was a criminal offense under apartheid law. Told as a series of stories — of church, of poverty and enterprise, of being a mixed child who belonged fully nowhere — the book is at center a tribute to his mother's faith, humor, and defiance.
Author: Trevor Noah · Original publisher: Spiegel & Grau (New York), 2016
