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flo1993's review against another edition
5.0
Many women go through what Trevor's mum experienced. We always want to see the good in someone, we always want to make them better. Its sad to see how patriachal the African society is especially when it comes to GBV. A huge lesson to women that first slap/kick/punch is a doorway to many more and eventually death. Walk away!
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Classism
hazrit209's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Gun violence and Physical abuse
Minor: Bullying and Suicide attempt
dragonmagic's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Medical content and Suicide attempt
miggyfool's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
itsliterarycait's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Police brutality
Moderate: Excrement
Minor: Rape and Suicide attempt
yodaddy's review against another edition
5.0
I cried for the first time in a year after reading
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Murder
skilletsnail's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Genocide, Blood, Colonisation, and Classism
adaoradk's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racism, Violence, and Suicide attempt
lectrixnoctis's review against another edition
5.0
"Born a Crime" is the tale of a prankish young boy who grows into a wandering young man as he strives to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to live in. Additionally, it is the story of that young man's connection with his fearless, rebellious, and highly religious mother—his teammate, a woman settled to save her son from the circle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would eventually threaten her own life.
The narrative was written in the first-person point of view by the author himself, and it was said in the past in South Africa.
Moreover, the motives of this book, in particular about racism and how apartheid, one of the worst crimes committed in South Africa, has affected the country and its people, although the system never truly worked at all. By casting black people away from white people and having no room for mixed children, who by law did not exist. I am a massive advocate for constantly educating yourself, especially racism, even more, if you are white. For me, a woman who has never lived outside of Germany and is broad, it is important to recognise my privilege and think about the system my ancestors have created and how I stop thinking that favours the system and even breaking out of it.
Not to forget to mention the love of Noah's mother was impeccable, and although I disagreed with her tough love method, I know it came from the heart, and I know she only wanted to do the best for him, which she enviably did. I loved reading about the relationship between the author and his mother throughout his whole childhood and his early 20s. Although I do not know these people personally, I felt connected with them because of the writing style, which hit me very hard and was witty at the same time.
A friend bought this as a gift for my 19th birthday, and I cannot be happier to read this book finally. I did not imagine it to hit that hard but in the best way possible. I laughed out loud because of it, and I cried at the end of the book. I did not think that autobiographies could make you feel something this deep like this one does. I highly recommend this book to anyone. You're probably going to cry, but you will love this book, and it will give you extreme joy.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child abuse, Antisemitism, and Fire/Fire injury
emberlesage's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Death and Death of parent
Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt