{"id":3140,"date":"2022-09-24T17:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T01:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2022-09-24T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T01:17:43","slug":"review-born-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Review: Born A Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have read a few celebrity-penned books that I would read again, and <em>Born A Crime<\/em> is one of them.  It&#8217;s a memoir of Trevor Noah growing up in Post-Aparthied South Africa.  I don&#8217;t watch much late night TV, so I didn&#8217;t have a particular attachment to him coming in.  He&#8217;s a talented writer and I liked this not-very -veiled tribute to his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He does a great job making events in a country that US readers would find a bit otherworldly very familiar by drawing out the universal human points of growing up.  I completely believe these stories are true, not because I fact checked them or know South Africa, but because I believe the perspective. (Yes, a talented writer can do the same thing in fiction, go with me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are lots of parts of these stories that can be eye opening about prejudice, poverty, or abuse, but I never feel preached to.  I think he&#8217;s making a bunch of points by bringing the reader into these stories so completely, but it&#8217;s never &#8220;a very special episode.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I like how he draws his relationship with his mother.  He understands that they&#8217;re very different in many ways, but that they&#8217;re in life together and committed to one another.  It&#8217;s nice to see such a real rendering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read a few celebrity-penned books that I would read again, and Born A Crime is one of them. It&#8217;s a memoir of Trevor Noah growing up in Post-Aparthied South Africa. I don&#8217;t watch much late night TV, so I didn&#8217;t have a particular attachment to him coming in. He&#8217;s a talented writer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}