Book Event: Megha Majumdar

Book Launch: Megha Majumdar presents A Guardian and a Thief

Wine reception to followMegha Majumdar, author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning, launches her electrifying new novel A Guardian and a Thief. Set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, Majumdar's new novel tells two stories: the story of Ma, a mother who, in the midst of preparing her family to flee the collapsing city, frantically searches for the thief of their immigration documents; 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, Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of the 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. A piercing and propulsive tour de force, Majumdar discusses the book before an audience Q&A and signing.

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