NovelTea Fiction Book Club: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

Join us for NovelTea Book Club! Enjoy tea and treats provided by the Menomonee Falls Library Friends while discussing a fiction book.

In a near-future Kolkata ravaged by floods and decay, Ma is preparing to leave for a new life in America with her young daughter, Mishti, and her aging father, Dadu. Their visas and passports finally secured, they're just days away from joining Ma's husband in Michigan-- until Ma's purse, holding all their precious documents, is stolen. The theft shatters their hopes and alters their lives forever. The story unfolds from two perspectives: Ma's desperate struggle to recover what's lost and Boomba's, the impoverished thief whose act of survival sets tragedy in motion. Through their intertwined fates, Megha Majumdar delivers a powerful and compassionate portrait of love, loss, and endurance amid poverty and corruption in a world on the brink of collapse.

Copies of this book will be available in the first-floor Lobby display beginning Friday, November 13, but you may also request it in your preferred format at cafelibraries.org or in our mobile app.