Mother Mary Comes to Me

Mother Mary Comes to Me is Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir. It gives a close and uplifting account of how she grew into the writer and the person she is. Circumstance played a part, but above all her tangled relationship with her mother Mary did, a woman she calls her shelter and her storm. The book speaks up for freedom and honours a love full of thorns, alongside a fierce and untamed grace. It is a memoir of one life, told with feeling.

Why You Should Read?

• Discover how circumstance and a complicated, loving mother shaped one writer's life.
• Explore an intimate and inspiring memoir written with great scale, sweep and depth.
• Understand the bond between a daughter and the extraordinary, singular mother she calls her shelter and storm.
• Experience a book that honours freedom, thorny love and a fierce, savage grace.

About the Author

Arundhati Roy is a memoir writer. Her mother Mary died, and memories and feelings stirred by that loss lie behind this book. Her life has stretched from Kerala to Delhi and from childhood into the present.