Byram Shubert Library – International Book Club (ZOOM): “A Guardian and a Thief ” by Megha Majumdar Online

Can one person be both guardian and thief? Depending on circumstances, the answer seems to be yes.

Set in near-future Kolkata, India, a city collapsing under poverty, hunger, and flooding, Ma is planning to leave her middle class life behind, and with her two-year-old and aging father, the three of them will join her husband in the US. They just have to survive one more week till their flight leaves.

This program is in association with Alliance Francaise, Greenwich