NEW YORK – Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s highly anticipated first memoir is set to be released next fall. Titled “Mother Mary Comes to Me”, the book is deeply inspired by the passing of Roy’s mother.
Scribner made the announcement on Friday, revealing that the Indian author and activist’s memoir will hit the shelves in September 2025. Roy, renowned for her award-winning novel “The God of Small Things”, shared that she embarked on this new project after her mother’s demise in September 2022. Mary Roy, a prominent educator whose life was portrayed in “The God of Small Things”, was honored in the book by her daughter as “one of the fiercest, most fabulous” individuals she ever knew.
“I have been writing this book all my life,” remarked Arundhati Roy in a statement released on Friday. “Perhaps a mother like mine deserved a writer like me as a daughter. Equally, perhaps a writer like me deserved a mother like her. Even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.”
At 61, Roy has an impressive literary portfolio including the novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” and works of nonfiction such as “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, “Walking with the Comrades” and “Kashmir”. Described by Scribner as an “astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny” read, Roy’s memoir traces her journey from childhood to present, from Kerala to Delhi.
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