Arundhati Roy to publish first memoir

Booker prize-winning author of The God of Small Things will reflect on her life and complex relationship with her late mother in ‘radically honest’ book The Booker prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy will publish her first memoir next September. In the book, titled Mother Mary Comes to Me, Roy will reflect on her complex relationship with her mother and her life from childhood to the present, moving from Kerala to Delhi. “Heart-smashed” by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022, and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write the memoir, said Penguin publishing imprint Hamish Hamilton, “to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age 18”.