Under Water: A Novel

"Tara Menon, an assistant professor at Harvard, has attracted a six-figure advance and sold the translation rights to more than 30 languages for Under Water , her first novel due to be published in March, which is set between the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand and the landfall of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. A Publishers Weekly review declared: “Menon crafts vivid depictions of tropical marine life and offers a visceral depiction of survivor’s guilt”, noting that it was “sure to pull at the reader’s heartstrings.” It has already attracted praise from many literary heavyweights—including Katie Kitamura (“a novel of remarkable delicacy and power”) and Namwali Serpell (“immersive and stirring, pellucid and mysterious, shot through with light and with shades”). It will certainly make a splash. What new novels are you looking forward to reading this season? Let us know on social media"