Mother Mary Comes to Me

“My favourite read of this year so far. Will be doing a longer review later :)”

“Roy reads the audiobook version, rec is to listen when you can really focus, her story demands your full attention. What a life, what a call to be brave and honest in your own life.”

“Leaves you thinking and feeling long after finishing the book, much like The God of Small Things does. Radical practice of unconditional love. She is incomparable.”

“GREAT book. "...from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as a woman and a writer. "Heart-smashed" by the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen and shaken by the intensity of her response, Arundhati Roy began this remarkable memoir--a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is..."”

“Gorgeous. There’s so much about her I didn’t know. And what a portrait of a mother daughter relationship.”

“A photograph of the world as a banquet with Mrs. Roy as the frame hanging in a house architected by her daughter Arundhati, of one of the great minds of our time.”

“The Booker Prize winning author writes a memoir which vividly details her harrowing childhood with a volatile mother in India, and her coming of age as a filmmaker and literary star worldwide. Remarkable storytelling.”