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scohen_'s review against another edition
4.0
I understand i am like 10 years late to this but ummm i learned so much about south africa. Just saying i literally never learned about apartheid in school…??
valentinavc's review against another edition
5.0
Trevor Noah is one of the stand-up comedians who I can tell is really a feminist. Having watched my fair share of stand-up, almost ALL male stand-up comedians make jokes about women; sometimes funny, most times deprecating and enforcing stereotypes. Sure you can joke about anything they say, but it is quite refreshing to see someone’s performance without feeling uncomfortable at all.
He isn’t assuming those values for his popularity or anything. You can see he truly grew up respecting women and thinking it is naturally the way. From his shows I kind of got the sense that it has something to do with his mother, and in this book (especially the last chapter which I couldn’t stop listening to until I finished it) we found out why. We saw that he was ignorant too, and it definitely takes one a lot of reckoning to truly understand the harm in domestic violence and how truly helpless the female victims are; and he was able to make those realizations. I really do hope many people would read this book to the end to not only learn the life of Trevor Noah but also his mother. Hopefully it doesn’t take an incident as traumatic as this for every men to realize what kind of world women has been living in, and what they need to do to help. Hopefully reading this book would be enough.
He isn’t assuming those values for his popularity or anything. You can see he truly grew up respecting women and thinking it is naturally the way. From his shows I kind of got the sense that it has something to do with his mother, and in this book (especially the last chapter which I couldn’t stop listening to until I finished it) we found out why. We saw that he was ignorant too, and it definitely takes one a lot of reckoning to truly understand the harm in domestic violence and how truly helpless the female victims are; and he was able to make those realizations. I really do hope many people would read this book to the end to not only learn the life of Trevor Noah but also his mother. Hopefully it doesn’t take an incident as traumatic as this for every men to realize what kind of world women has been living in, and what they need to do to help. Hopefully reading this book would be enough.
njmaas's review against another edition
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5.0
charmingcapybara's review against another edition
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4.25
withdaisyinmind's review against another edition
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5.0
amwebster70's review against another edition
5.0
So good! I recommend the audiobook as it’s read by the author. I knew very little about South Africa during Apartheid. I had made certain assumptions that I now know were all wrong.
melaniegalaxy's review against another edition
5.0
Incredibly well-written, with compelling recurring themes and a lot of history as well
sophietica's review against another edition
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5.0
It's one thing knowing somebody had a rough childhood, but knowing the details is completely different. Light in tone, dark in subject matter. I was moved by it.