Mother Mary Comes to Me

‘Heart-smashed’ by the death of the mother she ran from at eighteen, and shaken by the intensity of her response, Arundhati Roy began this remarkable memoir―a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how she became the person and the writer she is.

Arundhati Roy is the author of a number of books, including The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages. She was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in Delhi, where she now lives. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy, Walking with the Comrades, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, The End of Imagination, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize, the 2011 Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing, and the 2015 Ambedkar Sudar award.

It’s a masterclass in how to write and it is an absolute joy to
read’

-- Ann Patchett, author of award-winning Bel Canto

‘This is a jaw-dropping memoir . . . Mother Mary Comes to Me is feminist history, political outrage, environmental elegy and an act of radical compassion’ -- Barbara Kingsolver, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead

‘The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, Mother Mary
Comes to Me, captures the eventful life and times of her mother,
a driven educator and imperfect inspiration’

-- Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review