Arundhati Roy’s First Memoir To Be Published In September 2025
|The author said in a statement that she began working on the book after her mother’s death in September 2022
Booker prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy's first memoir, titled 'Mother Mary Comes To Me', will be published in September 2025. In the memoir, Arundhathi Roy will reportedly reflect on her complex relationship with her mother and her life from childhood to the present.
The author said in a statement that she began working on the book after her mother’s death in September 2022, reported Associated Press. “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," Arundhathi Roy added in the statement.
In addition to India, the book will be published in the UK, the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. The renowned writer won the 1997 Booker Prize for her debut novel, The God of Small Things. Known for being a prominent activist and human rights advocate, Arundhathi Roy's second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, was released in 2017 and longlisted for the Booker.