I get asked a lot about my choice to write in four point of views.

Short answer: sometimes stories are not choices, they have a life of their own, and you're guided by what the story and the characters are telling you to do. This is the best part about writing.

Long answer: I am fascinated by the stories we tell ourselves, others and the world. I am fascinated by how much these stories are shaped by how we were brought up, where we are coming from. Like almost every story about a scarred past, a scarred present, "truth" is an unstable thing. South Africa's history is not a history, but "histories" -- and the beauty of it is how different truths jostle with eachother to the present.

This is not dissimilar to my experience of how race is portrayed, lived and communicated in the US in the present day -- so much has been shaped by what has been done, what has been said (and not said) and how much we listen to eachother.

So on this day, with so much aching going on in the world. I have only the knowledge that listening, empathizing, pushing forward is what we have.