Tara Menon & Cecile Pin: Lives in Aftermath

Tara Menon's stunning debut, Under Water, and Cecile Pin's exquisite Celestial Lights are two haunting novels of retrospection, in which private lives are altered by forces far larger than themselves: a lost friend on a post-tsunami Thai island; a husband and father hurtling towards a distant moon.

From ecological catastrophe to the costs of ambition, they open up a poignant conversation about memory, love, sacrifice, and the ways we hold on to the people who define us.

Chaired by Rachelle Atalla.