About the author
Megha Majumdar is an Indian novelist and editor who grew up in Kolkata and later studied in the United States. Her fiction follows people whose private hopes are caught inside political, economic, and media systems larger than themselves.
A Guardian and a Thief imagines near-future Kolkata through two families competing under flood and famine. The conflict remains intimate because every harmful choice is also presented as an attempt to protect a child.
Where to start
Start with A Guardian and a Thief, a one-week climate novel about stolen immigration papers and two households running out of time.
