{"id":49008,"date":"2026-05-12T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/?p=49008"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:31:30","slug":"between-the-lines-book-discussion-a-guardian-and-a-thief-by-megha-majumdar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/?p=49008","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines Book Discussion: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com\/calendar\/between-the-lines-book-discussion-reg-opens-5-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49009 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aguardianandathief-463x700.jpg\" alt=\"A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar book cover.\" width=\"302\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aguardianandathief-463x700.jpg 463w, https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aguardianandathief-768x1161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aguardianandathief.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/>Monday, June 8 at 7 PM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.northvillelibrary.org\/GroupedWork\/8e7c12ad-f518-05ce-4ef1-56eed4060adf-eng\/Home?searchId=1456283&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;searchSource=local&amp;referred=resultIndex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Literary Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a near-future Kolkata, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma\u2019s 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\u2019s purse, containing their treasured immigration documents, has been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Set over the course of one week, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma\u2019s 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. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children\u2019s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.assabetinteractive.com\/calendar\/between-the-lines-book-discussion-reg-opens-5-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register for Between the Lines Book Discussion: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, June 8 at 7 PM A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar Literary Fiction In a near-future Kolkata, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma\u2019s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[524,813],"tags":[932],"class_list":["post-49008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-events","category-book-clubs","tag-between-the-lines"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-08 20:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49010,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008\/revisions\/49010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northvillelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}