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OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 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 other.
