Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Edit 03/25/2019: Counting this as my South Africa Book around the World.

After reading a lot of books that left me disappointed, this was so refreshing.

As someone who reads a lot of celebrity memoirs (and I mean...A LOT), I thought I knew what to expect. Usually, it is a series of essays relying how they became the star they are now mixed with some humor in there. But this was different. I learned so much from this book, and would encourage anyone to read it as well (whether you know who Trevor Noah is or not). It had the self-depricating stories (like his failures with romance), and also included how he learned comedy but in ALL of the essays I learned something. I learned about South Africa, language/linguistics, community, and parenting.

The last couple lines in this book left me teary. Beautiful memoir, nice surprise.