~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Debut Author and for Biography/Autobiography - 2017, Thurber Prize for American Humor - 2017

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.

The eighteen personal essays collected in Born A Crime are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting.  Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty.  His stories weave together to form a moving, and scathingly 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’s unconventional, unconditional love.