Sparks & Splinters: Lauri Kubuitsile, author of the The Scattering

Image: Lauri Kubuitsile for Books Live, Sunday Times

“I love our inconsistencies and our internal conflicts,” says Lauri Kubuitsile. “The convoluted ways we bend our thoughts to rationalise our actions, to justify what we do, even the most horrible acts. We’re not always good; if we were I would have long left human stories and started writing about warthogs or baobab trees. Some of the scenes made me sad. Sometimes reading them, even now, I cry. But that’s okay, I’m human too; we are a magnificently resilient sort of animal.”

In an interview with Jacqui L'Ange for the Sunday Times

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