![]() So don’t discount some of the ordinariness of your story – that is where you will more likely connect with your reader. The deeper connection between writer and reader is often made in the most ordinary and inconsequential ways. Now I felt that Trevor and I had a connection, and I was keen to get to know his mother more.īeing thrown out of moving cars is certainly interesting, but it doesn’t happen to all of us. Perhaps you met his mother, Patricia? Trevor though would’ve been just a tjokkie.” Which is South African slang for a young child. In fact, I called out to my husband, “You’ll never guess what we have in connection with Trevor Noah! We all attended at Rosebank Union and at about the same time. Now there was no letting go, I wanted to know more. That is my church – at least the church where I married and the church I joined when I started dating my husband. Very Christian.” But it really took hold two pages on when Trevor Noah names one of the three churches he and his mother attended every Sunday, Rosebank Union Church. My mother was – and still is – a deeply religious woman. The hook started to press into my skin when next he says that the incident happened on a Sunday, after church, because as he writes, “We never missed church. The book could’ve started with the opening line of the second paragraph where Trevor Noah writes, “I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car.” That certainly intrigued me but it isn’t what hooked me. It certainly wasn’t the opening paragraph which I think could have been left out entirely. How did they get from obscurity at the bottom end of Africa to where they are today?Īlso, the title Born a Crime cinched the deal. I picked up his book because I’m always interested to read about fellow South Africans and how they have made it on the big stage. I’d heard about Trevor Noah and watched a handful of his shows. Here we go with Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. I review the memoir based on questions that, in themselves, have value as they reflect the questions that readers subconsciously ask themselves when reading. ![]() So, I thought, why not do a book review on the memoirs I read – and use them to highlight certain aspects of memoir writing? A great way to learn how to write a memoir is to read memoirs. ![]()
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