Play Book Tag discussion

It's Trevor Noah is an adapted for youth reader edition of Born a Crime.

In It's Trevor Noah, Trevor talks about growing up in South Africa and about not fitting in. Noah is the son of black South African mother and a white European father. In South Africa, Trevor was considering "colored" and didn't have anyone to fit in with. People of South Africa didn't see him as white or black, he looked different because of his olive colored skin.

Trevor talks of doing a lot of things alone, spending time with his mother and about the limited to times he got to visit his father. During this time, it was a crime for people of black and white cultures to be together and/or have children together. Trevor's fathers information is not listed on Trevor's birth certificate........this "crime" was kept a secret.

I really enjoyed this book. It's been on my TBR for a long time. I'm glad I finally picked it up to read. Here are two quotes from the book.

Trevor considered himself an outsider. But he found a way to fit in at school, by being a lunchtime food runner for money. He was successful at this "job", but he states "I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself."

Trevor credit's his mother by doing what school didn't do. "She taught me how to think." As a parent to a teen in the public school system, I have always told her that a school teacher's job is to teach her how to think NOT what to think,

I just opened this and got real excited because I thought he had a new book that I somehow missed! Lol.

Nicole R wrote: "I just opened this and got real excited because I thought he had a new book that I somehow missed! Lol."

I was thinking the same thing! LOL!