Mother Mary Comes to Me

by Arundhati Roy

The first work of memoir by the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Crushed by the death of her mother in 2022, the writer recalls the peculiar intensity of their relationship, from her childhood in Kerala and into the present. “I learned early that the safest place can be the most dangerous,” writes Roy. “And that even when it isn’t, I make it so.’