<b><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER &bull; More than one million copies sold! A &ldquo;brilliant&rdquo; (Lupita Nyong&rsquo;o, <i>Time</i>),&#160;&ldquo;poignant&rdquo; (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>), &ldquo;soul-nourishing&rdquo; (<i>USA Today</i>)&#160;memoir&#160;about coming of&#160;age during the twilight of&#160;apartheid</b><br>&#160;<br><b>&ldquo;Noah&rsquo;s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa&rsquo;s history that must never be forgotten.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Esquire</i></b><br>&#160;<br><b>Winner of the Thurber Prize for&#160;American Humor&#160;and&#160;an NAACP Image Award &bull; Named one of the best books of the year by <i>The&#160;New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle,</i> NPR, <i>Esquire, Newsday,</i> and <i>Booklist</i></b></b><br> Trevor Noah&rsquo;s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of <i>The Daily Show </i>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&rsquo; 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 government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa&rsquo;s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.<br> <i>Born a Crime</i> is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man&rsquo;s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother&mdash;his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.<br> The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother&rsquo;s unconventional, unconditional love.