Everything you need to understand or teach A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar.
Megha Majumdar's novel A Guardian and a Thief blends climate fiction and family drama to follow a mother in a collapsing Indian city who clings to a set of climate visas as her family's path to the United States. The book centers on Ma, her elderly father Dadu, her toddler daughter Mishti, and Boomba, a young thief whose hunger for shelter and security entangles him with their plans to leave for Michigan and reunite with Baba, Mishti's father. Set over seven days marked by water shortages, monsoon floods, and bureaucratic hurdles at the American consulate and airport, the novel moves between Ma's home, an animal shelter, a neighbor's parrot filled house, and the imagined safety of America. Majumdar explores themes of guardianship and betrayal, climate injustice, migration, economic precarity, and the blurred line between care and exploitation.
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