HARVARD PRIDE
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