Author: stevenowad

An autobiography about the TV personality’s childhood growing up in South Africa. Funny, sad and uplifting. Noah’s relationship with his mother is deeply moving, and the pair’s resilience in the face of unimaginable injustice is inspiring. And the story about the Xhosa hip-hop dance king …

A fictionalized rendering of the last hours of the 9/11 terrorists and the people who crossed their paths. Few books have a more generous heart, and few writers are talented enough to make you feel good about humankind while they’re showing you people self-destructing. This …

More of a screenplay than a novel, this book has sparse punctuation, few speaker attributions, and narration that bleeds into the action. If most writers tried to write like this, the result might not be pretty. Since this is McCarthy we’re talking about—with big questions …