Born a Crime

I sat close by her bed, holding her hand, waiting and watching her breathe, a flood of thoughts going through my mind. I was sti ...

After an hour or so of waiting, she opened her unbandaged eye. The second she did, I lost it. I started bawling. She asked for s ...

I kept bawling and bawling. “I thought I’d lost you.” “No, baby. Baby, don’t cry. Trevor. Trevor, listen. Listen to me. Listen.” ...

She broke out in a huge smile and started laughing. Through my tears, I started laughing, too. I was bawling my eyes out and lau ...

When my mother was shot, so much happened so quickly. We were only able to piece the whole story together after the fact, as we ...

him up, put the boy in his car, and drove away. As they drove, Isaac turned to his dad. “Dad, why did you kill Mom?” he asked, a ...

friend. He dropped Isaac off with this friend and then he drove off. He spent that day and went to everyone, relatives and frien ...

station, and Abel turned himself in. He spent a couple of weeks in jail, waiting for a bail hearing. We filed a motion opposing ...

against us. Because of my mother’s miraculous recovery, the charge was only attempted murder. And because no domestic violence c ...

— The final piece of the story came from my mom, who could only tell us her side after she woke up. She remembered Abel pulling ...

To this day, nobody can explain what happened. Even the police didn’t understand. Because it wasn’t like the gun didn’t work. It ...

visiting, talking and hanging out, laughing and crying. As we packed up her things to leave, I was going on about how insane the ...

“Trevor, I prayed. I told you I prayed. I don’t pray for nothing.” “You know,” I said, “for once I cannot argue with you. The gu ...

For my mother. My first fan. Thank you for making me a man. ...

For nurturing my career these past years and steering me down the road that led to this book, I owe many thanks to Norm Aladjem, ...

Claire Harris. Also, many thanks to Tanner Colby for helping me put my story on the page. For seeing the potential in this book ...

published with the utmost care, I would like to thank everyone at Pan Macmillan South Africa, including Sean Fraser, Sandile Khu ...

And, finally, for bringing me into this world and making me the man I am today, I owe the greatest debt, a debt I can never repa ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR TREVOR NOAH is a comedian from South Africa. trevornoah.com Facebook.com/​OfficialTrevorNoah Twitter: @Trevorno ...

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