Born a Crime: Stories from a South African ChildhoodTrevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a

saw his family fall

The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is

but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the house--as in NEVER

But Petra refuses to listen

a change that came at great professional and personal cost

and relatives of those killed by the anti-Black terrorism of policing and prisons

She realizes that her eyes are like her mother's

urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education

and gathering together at the table

a role model sister he rarely sees

On Dream Street

Book two takes place after the Nashville sit-in campaign