Times Critics’ Top Books of 2016 - The New York Times
Michiko Kakutani, Dwight Garner, Jennifer Senior and Janet Maslin
Noah gives us a harrowing understanding of what it was like to grow up in a society where questions of race permeated every aspect of daily life, and at the same time has written a deeply affecting love letter to his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, a remarkable woman who was determined that her son “be free to go anywhere, do anything, be anyone.
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