Mother Mary Comes to Me | Arundhati Roy (Autobiography)

Raw and deeply moving, Mother Mary Comes to Me traces the complex relationship Arundhati had with her mother, Mary Roy. A fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer, Arundhati was “heart-smashed” by Mary’s death in September 2022. And so Arundhati began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen. 

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other. 

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