Mother Mary Comes To Me

Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is a powerful, intimate, and inspiring account of how she became the person—and the writer—she is today. Shaped by life’s circumstances, but most profoundly by her complex relationship with her extraordinary and singular mother, whom she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”
Written in the wake of her mother Mary’s death, this memoir flows from a surge of memory and emotion. It traces Roy’s journey from her childhood in Kerala to her life in Delhi, offering an astonishing, often unsettling, and surprisingly humorous portrait of her life.
With the same scope and emotional depth as her acclaimed novels—The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—and the sharp insight and warmth of her essays, this memoir is a celebration of freedom, a tribute to fierce love, and an exploration of beauty and defiance. It is a memoir like no other.
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