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Book Review: Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

I took my time with this book. I've had a tough time buying this one because most book stores in Malaysia did not carry it and getting it online from MPH or Popular Bookstore during the MCO lockdown was tough. And besides, with the pandemic, I wasn't in the mood to read anything somber like...you know, Apartheid.  But I found it on BookDepository and placed it in my Wish List - like I always do with books I intend to read one day .  When I finally got the book, I took my time.  You see, all I know about Trevor Noah came from the show he hosts, the one we see on YouTube and Instagram . After reading his Wikipedia , I found out about his childhood of living through the end-stage of Apartheid and his mom's near death experience.  THEN, I had to read the book.  Racism is the silent elephant in a small room in a country like Malaysia. We don't talk about it, we don't shy away from it, we don't deny it, we don't (really) fight it. So, in a lot of ways, I think w