{"product_id":"mother-mary-comes-to-me","title":"Mother Mary Comes to Me: A memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBestseller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed One of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s Top Ten Books of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) from the legendary author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, “Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is an intimate chronicle, “full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist’s unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heart-smashed” by Mary’s death, yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). An ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a memoir like no other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/span\u003e, captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.” \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/em\u003eBook Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An electrifying look at the author’s career and activism.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brave and absorbing...In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother...The world described in the first part of the book provides much of the material for \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/span\u003e. But these pages aren’t significant for giving us access to Roy’s inspiration, or as a preamble to her life as a bestselling writer who would go on to become an oppositional political voice. Even if she were none of these things or had never written her novel, they would be utterly absorbing. They have a wonderful, self-assured self-sufficiency.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tender and ambivalent memoir about the difficult Mrs. Roy and a withering polemic about India’s political ills...full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence... It is no accident that Roy is at her most meticulous and probing when she focuses on the person who taught her that a woman, too, can be a full-fledged human being—both a marvel and a monster, both a teacher and a tyrant...Mrs. Roy is not only this book’s eponym but its heroine, and by far its most interesting character.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roy, the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003echannels warmth, moral clarity and a sweeping bird’s-eye view of modern India to tell her life story, which was shaped by poverty, violence, political upheaval and—most of all—the volatile single mother who raised her.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book pulses with compassion and moral outrage…Ms. Roy acknowledges that her difficult mother shaped the free-spirited, headstrong, risk-taking writer she became…It’s clear from this memoir that while Ms. Roy has lost her chief adversary, she hasn’t lost her fire.”\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writers have the ability to tell stories that create the world we want to live in...With every book, every essay, every speech, Roy builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first memoir from Roy details her come-up as a writer, but it’s as much a biography of her complicated, compelling single mother, Mary…fascinating.”\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cinematic…dense with the lyrical language, deep empathy and fierce social critique that have made Roy’s novels international bestsellers….By book’s end, Roy can take stock of the contradictions in her mother’s life—her triumphs, her passionate advocacy for her students, her ‘soul-crushing meanness’—and still love her dearly…\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003emay pack the same ‘heart-smashing’ wallop on readers. It is a masterpiece of memoir writing, a rich tapestry of memory, reckoning and longing. ” \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMay-lee Chai, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Booker Prize–winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy recounts a life of poverty and upheaval, defiance and triumph in an emotionally raw memoir, centered on her complicated relationship with her mother...Her candid memoir revives both an extraordinary woman and the tangled complexities of filial love. An intimate, stirring chronicle.\" \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/em\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Roy has also published several works of nonfiction, including Azadi, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, and Broken Republic. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2024, the PEN Pinter Prize for telling “urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty. She lives in Delhi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44517681725533,"sku":"9781668095058","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/MotherMaryComestoMe.jpg?v=1781202284","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/mother-mary-comes-to-me","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}