Tara Menon
Debut novelist and assistant professor of English at Harvard, author of the novel Under Water which explores grief, childhood friendship, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 14min
'Under Water' by Tara Menon
Tara Menon, debut novelist and Harvard English professor, discusses her novel Under Water. She talks about its eight-year writing process and the research on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The conversation explores childhood friendship, grief, and vivid underwater world-building. She also shares what inspired the story and offers a few book recommendations.
