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NONFICTION 2026 The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati
Roy author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir this is a
soaring account both intimate and inspiring of how the author became the person and the
writer she is shaped by circumstance but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary
singular mother Mary who she describes as 'my shelter and my storm'. Distraught and even a
"little ashamed" at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at
age eighteen Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me . The result is this astonishing
disconcerting surprisingly funny chronicle-unique and simultaneously universal of the
author's life from childhood to the present from Kerala to Delhi. With the scale sweep and
depth of her novels 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
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