{"id":59163,"date":"2025-10-25T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=59163"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:23:51","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-a-guardian-and-a-thief-by-megha-majumdar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-a-guardian-and-a-thief-by-megha-majumdar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a>\u00a0to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. Reminder that if you join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a>, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey\u2019s latest selection is\u00a0A Guardian and a Thief<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Megha Majumdar.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0A Guardian and a Thief<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

Megha Majumdar\u2019s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning\u2014longlisted for the National Book Award\u2014is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other. A piercing and propulsive tour de force.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.<\/em> – Knopf<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah, Jenna, and Reese\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join\u00a0Bestsellers Club\u00a0to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. Reminder that if you join\u00a0Bestsellers Club, you can choose to have these[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9934,10,1,8],"tags":[10957,9989,1719,7389,5862,5299,2538],"class_list":["post-59163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestsellers-club","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-a-guardian-and-a-thief","tag-bestsellers-club","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-book-clubs","tag-megha-majumdar","tag-oprah","tag-oprah-winfrey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-fof","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163\/revisions\/59253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}