Mother Mary Comes To Me By Arundhati Roy

Mother Mary Comes to Me is the first memoir by Booker Prize–winning author Arundhati Roy, a deeply intimate tribute to her mother, Mary Roy—the fearless educator and women’s rights activist who changed inheritance laws in India.

Blending memory, emotion, and politics, Arundhati Roy explores her childhood in Kerala, her turbulent yet loving relationship with her mother, and the roots of her own voice as a writer and activist. Written in her signature lyrical and unflinching style, this memoir is both a daughter’s reckoning and a broader reflection on identity, feminism, and India’s shifting history.

Raw, tender, and powerful, this book is an unforgettable portrait of a mother who was at once “shelter and storm,” and of the daughter who inherited her fire.