📖 A Guardian and A Thief, by Megha Majumdar
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Grab a coffee and join us for a relaxed discussion of A Guardian and A Thief by Megha Majumdar. ☕ 📚 This is an easygoing, welcoming conversation over coffee. You do not need to have finished the book to attend. Feel free to share thoughts from wherever you are in the story, or simply listen and enjoy.
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About the book
Megha Majumdar's electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.
In a near-future Kolkata, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma's husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma's purse, containing their treasured immigration documents, has been stolen.
Set over the course of one week, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma's frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children's future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe.