Mother Mary Comes to Me
By Arundhati Roy
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) is novelist Arundhati Roy's memoir of her mother, Mary Roy, a teacher and activist in Kerala who died in 2022. Roy describes a mother who founded a school in Kottayam and fought a landmark legal battle for the inheritance rights of Syrian Christian women, yet was also volatile and often harsh at home. She traces their difficult relationship, her own departure from home as a young woman and her path to becoming a writer.