Overview

• Mother Mary Comes To Me, published in late summer 2025, is drawing sustained attention for its portrayal of a fraught mother–daughter bond.
• The book describes Arundhati Roy’s departure for New Delhi at 16 to escape what she recounts as verbal and physical abuse at home.
• Reviewers highlight specific episodes Roy recounts, including being insulted and pelted with crockery and the killing of her pet dog when she was 13.
• Coverage places these revelations alongside Mary Roy’s public achievements as founder of Pallikoodam and a litigant whose case advanced inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women.
• The memoir also recalls a later, tentative reconciliation before Mary Roy’s 2022 death, including a gesture of support when she brought her daughter an old typewriter.