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(A)His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way througha damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional,unconditional love. 
(B) Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union waspunishable by five years in prison. 
(C) Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he strugglesto find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. 
(D)The stories collected in the book are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting.   Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminalact: his birth. 35 Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest yearsof his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government thatcould, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevorand his mother set forth on a grand adventure. They lived openly and freely and embraced the opportunities wonby a centuries-long struggle.    36 It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religiousmother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse thatwould ultimately threaten her own life.    37 Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car duringan attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevorilluminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. 38
35 Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest yearsof his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government thatcould, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevorand his mother set forth on a grand adventure. They lived openly and freely and embraced the opportunities wonby a centuries-long struggle.