Mother Mary comes to me / Arundhati Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roy, Arundhati, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roy, Arundhati--Family relationships.

Women authors--Biography.

Mothers and daughters.

Authors, Indic.

Political activists.

Mothers--Death.

Social justice--India.

activists.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 330 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.

Summary:

"Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as "my shelter and my storm." "Heart-smashed" by her mother Mary's death in September 2022 yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her." And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author's journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, 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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Gangster

Fugitives

The cosmopolitans

'I love you double'

The sliding-folding school

Federico Fellini and the Kottayam Santa

Collateral

The Naxalites

I'm all for the unconquered moon

Laurie Baker and the Bald Hill

Joe, Jimi, Janis, and Jesus

'How's that crazy mother of yours?'

'You're a millstone around my neck'

'Doesn't she sound like that person in the Exorcist?'

In which Jesus marries a Japanese parcel

Cake walkin' baby

In the shade of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya

'What's so funny?'

They're gonna put me in the movies

'Have you ever considered becoming a writer?'

Mama bear, Papa bear

The exquisite art of failure

Flying rhinos and the Banyan Tree

In which Annie gives it those ones

Blasphemy

'You are not showing India in a proper light'

The band breaks up

'The great Indian rape trick'

The God of small things

Things fall apart

Mobile republic

Rally for the valley

More trouble with the law

Jailbird

My seditious heart

A home of my own

Utmost happiness

Madame Houdini and the nothing man

Walking with the comrades

'Her birth certificate was an apology from God'

Retreat

A declaration of love

Acknowledgments.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781668094716

1668094711

OCLC:

1531990609