Overview

• Published by Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, the 376-page book is priced at Rs 899 and marks Roy’s debut in memoir.
• The narrative centers on grieving and honoring Mary Roy while preserving her story for posterity.
• Mary Roy’s 1986 Supreme Court victory securing equal inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women features prominently alongside her role as founder and former principal of Pallikoodam in Kottayam.
• Roy also traces her own formation, from entering the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture at 16 to years living and working near Delhi’s Nizamuddin graveyard.
• The book examines motherhood through what Roy calls “Mrs Royhood,” describing a complex mother-daughter distance and highlighting the late-life reconciliation between Mary Roy and her brother G. Isaac.