Loosely Bound Evenings In-Person
This month's selection: Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Summary: Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Copies of this month's selection are available at Storrs Library, as well as online in our Libby catalog.
Advance Registration is required.
- Date:
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Time:
- 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Screening Room
- Audience:
- Adults
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- Book Discussions