Tom's next guest is the best-selling Indian-American novelist, Megha Majumdar.

Born in Kolkata, India, she moved to the U.S. for her education. She studied at Harvard, and received a graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University. Her first novel, A Burning, was published in 2020. It was nominated for the National Book Award, and several other prestigious awards, and it was chosen as a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and TIME Magazine.

Her new book, like her debut novel, is attracting all sorts of attention and awards interest. It’s set in Kolkata, as the city deals with the ravages of climate change. It’s called A Guardian and a Thief.