What happens when the woman who raised you is both your fiercest protector and your deepest wound? In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy turns her unflinching gaze on the formidable mother who shaped her life, her politics, and her art.
From a precarious childhood in Kerala, to the founding of a radical girls’ school, to a landmark Supreme Court case on women’s inheritance rights, Roy’s mother is by turns shelter and storm—brilliant, abusive, trailblazing, and unforgettable. This memoir traces how that “cult of two” between mother and daughter forged an independent, disobedient writer who would go on to win the Booker Prize and become one of India’s most controversial public intellectuals.
If you’re interested in difficult love, feminist rage, and how a single parent can alter the course of history—and a child—this summary is a gripping, emotional place to start.
