Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about the forthcoming titles everyone in publishing is reading. This month, with an eye toward spring and summer, we asked the staff of the Center For Fiction which galleys they have been loving. Bookstore buyer Melanie Fleishman recommends Under Water by Tara Menon (Riverhead, 3/17): “Two best friends spend an idyllic childhood together by the Indian Ocean, diving among brilliantly colored fish until the 2004 tsunami hits—claiming one of them. This event is bookended by an approaching Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Utterly vivid, Menon’s debut captures the beauty of the natural world […]
