Our Review… This powerful memoir is part intimate family story and part literary origin tale, explores Roy’s complex relationship with her formidable mother, Mary Roy, alongside her own journey to writing the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things. Mary Roy was a force of nature … brilliant, progressive and a pioneering educator, yet also a difficult and often cruel presence in her children’s lives. Roy recounts these memories with striking honesty, capturing a mother who was both an inspiration and also a breathtaking torment to her children. During the years Arundhati spends estranged from her mother, we follow her remarkable path through poverty, her architectural studies, activism and creative work, all leading to the astonishing success of her debut novel. Fierce and reflective, Mother Mary Comes to Me is a haunting memoir of anger, love and legacy—two extraordinary women whose lives shaped one another and influenced countless others. Review by Nicole @ Great Escape Books
