Oprah Winfrey chose Megha Majumdar's National Book Award fiction finalist A Guardian and a Thief as the October Oprah's Book Club Pick, Oprah Daily reported, noting: "Megha Majumdar is one of those exquisitely skilled authors that takes us into the story of characters and cultural conflicts and leaves us spellbound until the last word and beyond."
"My heart is beating so fast," Majumdar told Oprah over the phone when she got the surprise call. "Right now, every word feels too modest and too rigid, and too inflexible to capture this expansion that you've just brought into my day and into my life."
Winfrey interviewed the author for the most recent Oprah's Book Club: Presented by Starbucks podcast, available here.