She did it again!  I couldn’t stop reading her first book The Burning, once I opened to the first page.   Now again, her second novel just 205 pages held me spellbound with heart pounding.

“An electrifying depiction of dignity and morality under siege. . . . With gorgeous writing and the pacing of a thriller, A Guardian and a Thief transports the reader to a world ravaged by drought, burning heat, and severe food scarcity. . . . The way Majumdar manages to connect all the storylines with a resolution that unfolds both globally and in one small living room is genius.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“Devastatingly powerful. . . . With this incredible story, Majumdar has given us something precious: truth.” —BookPage (starred review)

“Luminous. . . . Majumdar conjures a city at once deteriorating and resilient, where markets sell seaweed and synthetic fish, and the city’s ‘remaining benevolent billionaire’ lives on a heavily guarded man-made island in a widening river. . . . There’s no clear-cut villain here, just people attempting to survive and protect their own. Majumdar proves once again that she is a master of the moral dilemma.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Majumdar brilliantly blurs right and wrong, ethics and legality. . . . [An] exquisitely wrenching novel.” —Booklist (starred review)

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