WHY AM I LIKE THIS?

238pp., paperback, Kwela Books, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780795711268

Twenty-seven year-old Farah Garda, stuck in a pattern of self-loathing and self-sabotage, moves to Johannesburg to care for her ailing mother. In the midst of grief, she learns how to rewrite her story and love herself.

Qaanitah Hunter won Vodacom Journalist of the year in 2016 and 2017 and the Nat Nakasa Journalism Award in 2019. She has provided political analysis on SABC, eNCA, Talk Radio 702 and has written for the Sunday Times, Daily Maverick and Mail and Guardian. She is the author of Balance of Power and co-author of Eight Days in July and Who Will Rule South Africa? Why am I like this? is her debut novel.