Under Water
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did you find yourself wanting a blanket, a bath, or a window with rain on it?
Was there a page early on where you felt the book pull you under and you knew you were in for the whole thing? What was happening on it?
Water in this book can be shelter or threat depending on the moment. Which of those two did it feel like to you most of the time, and does that match your own relationship with being in water?
The novel spends a lot of its attention on things left unsaid inside a family. Was that comforting to read or quietly painful for you, and did it remind you of a silence in your own house growing up?
Menon lets small domestic details carry big feelings. Which tiny ordinary detail stayed with you after you closed the book, and why do you think that one stuck?
This is a book about what rises back up when you try to keep it down. What did reading it bring back up for you, even gently, that you had not thought about in a while?
By the last stretch, the book asks whether surfacing is a relief or just a different kind of exposure. Which did it feel like for you as a reader, and what in your own life taught you that answer?
If you could sit with any one person in this novel for an hour, no advice given, just tea and company, who would you choose and what would you want them to feel by the end of that hour?