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Mother Mary Comes to Me

Paperback • 2026 • English

Mother Mary Comes to Me

By Arundhati Roy

3 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and 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'. Distraught and even a "little ashamed" at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is t...Show more

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ISBN

9781405978477

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Published year

2026

Language

English

Original title

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Format

Paperback

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