what was the theme of this book? how do you know? examples from the book

There are many themes but race is a key theme in the memoir because South Africa is a place where someone's race determines many details of their life, and also because it is a constant source of tension and confusion for Trevor. He fully belongs neither in the Black nor the White communities, and he is constantly made to feel different from others because of his mixed racial heritage. Trevor's personal experience of racial ambiguity is juxtaposed against an exploration of how South Africa has made race an individual's defining characteristic. As Leon de Kock explains, "expressions of Self are often marked by a simultaneous setting apart from various Others. And yet it is precisely such attempted setting apart that marks the South African subject as fractured" (pg. 266).