Mother Mary Comes to Me
Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir by A
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Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir by Arundhati Roy published in 2025.
It is centred on the eventful life of her mother Mary Roy, who is "sharp, restless and charismatic, a visionary ruling with an iron fits" and Arundhati Roy's relations with her. In author's own words, it is "about my relationship with my mother, about how she made me the kind of writer that I am - and then resented it".
However, the book is also "a search for the roots of Roy's own evolution into a writer".
One commentator termed it a "biography cum autobiography of two remarkable women"
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