Book Club: A Guardian and a Thief: A Novel, by Megha Majumdar
Mon, May 17
|Generations Senior Community Center
Led by Cheryl Hanson Is 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.
Time & Location
May 17, 2027, 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Generations Senior Community Center, 103 Elm Street, Woodruff, WI 54568, USA
About the Event
Arrive by 12:00pm, bring a lunch or snack you enjoy as it will not be provided.
Book Club discussions start at 1:00pm in the lower level conference room and generally end by 2:30pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of the Andrew Carnagie Medal for Excellence. Finalist for the National Book Award, Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Oprah’s Book Club pick.
In a near-future Kolkata, India, 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…