#1 New York Times Bestseller More than one million copies sold! A brilliant (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), poignant (Entertainment Weekly), soul-nourishing (Usa Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid Noah's childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa's history that must never be forgotten. Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an Naacp Image Award Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, Usa Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Npr, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.