Books and Brews - October Event

This month, we’ll be discussing Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.

Part memoir, part social commentary, and part coming-of-age story, Born a Crime chronicles Trevor Noah’s childhood growing up in apartheid South Africa as the son of a Black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father — a relationship that was illegal at the time, literally making his birth a crime. Through humor, honesty, and deeply personal storytelling, Noah explores identity, resilience, poverty, family, race, and what it means to find belonging in a divided world.

At the heart of the book is Noah’s relationship with his fearless and fiercely determined mother, who challenged the limits imposed on them by society and taught him to think independently, adapt, and survive. Blending hilarious stories with painful realities, the book examines how humor, language, and human connection can become tools for survival even in the middle of hardship and injustice.

We’ll gather at Austin…