Arundhati Roy to Release First Memoir 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' in September 2025
The memoir, inspired by the death of her mother, will explore Roy's life from childhood to the present.
- Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy announced her first memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me,' will be published in September 2025.
- The memoir is inspired by the death of her mother, Mary Roy, in September 2022.
- Mary Roy, a renowned educator, was fictionalized in Arundhati Roy's Booker-winning novel 'The God of Small Things.'
- Roy described the book as tracing her life from childhood in Kerala to the present day in Delhi.
- Scribner, the publisher, describes the memoir as 'astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny.'
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