This memoir has been blogged about by Linda, Patrick, Kara, and Christa. Read their takes on the book and they pretty much covered everything I would have. I also listened to the audiobook which was read by Noah. I found the degrees of racial division during the South African Apartheid to be very interesting. The relationship of Trevor Noah's black mother and white father was a crime which explains the title. But he was neither black nor white and thus fell into the category of "colored" which included people of mixed race, Indians, and Chinese. Japanese, however were "white". As a colored boy, he was discouraged from associating with blacks. This is racism at its most convoluted. The story of his early life makes it even more remarkable that he is now the television personality we are accustomed to.
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