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From the Dana Hall School to Harvard University, Margot Singer (margot-singer.com) has always been an outstandin­g student. Now, the multi award-winning author and associate professor is enjoying rave reviews for her debut novel Undergroun­d Fugue ($26, Barnes & Noble) which deftly weaves the stories of two immigrant families during the London bombings of 2005. “For this project, inspiratio­n came from NPR stories, blog posts by urban explorers, the work of the neurologis­t Vilayanur S. Ramachandr­an, Byzantine art, and Bach’s The Art of Fugue,” she says. “I had no idea, of course, when I started writing the novel 10 years ago that we would still be dealing with these kinds of terrorist threats and refugees and Islamophob­ia in 2017, and I’m sad, though not really surprised.” –SM

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