Overview

• The book, titled "Mother Mary Comes to Me," will be published in the United States by Scribner on September 2 in hardcover, e-book and audio formats.
• CBS News released an excerpt that frames Roy’s mourning and her effort to reckon with her mother’s death and influence.
• The memoir centers on Mary Roy, founder of the Pallikoodam school in Kottayam, who in 1986 won a Supreme Court case securing equal inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women.
• Coverage notes Mary Roy’s death at age 89 and recounts the outpouring of obituaries and tributes that preceded a family-planned farewell.
• An Indian edition is already available from Penguin, with early reviews emphasizing motherhood, family history and reconciliation.