Mother Mary Comes To Me, Arundhati Roy’s First Memoir, to be Launched in Kochi
Arundhati Roy’s First Memoir, Mother Mary Comes To Me, to be Launched in Kochi.
Kochi, 2nd September 2025, DC Books and Penguin Random House will launch Arundhati Roy’s first memoir, Mother Mary Comes To Me, at the Kochi Book Festival.
The memoir, like her fiction, is powerful and deeply personal. It is a memoir of Roy’s extraordinarily complicated relationship with her extraordinary mother, Mary Roy, a pioneering activist and educator. In a book of raw truth and lyrical solemnity, Roy meditates on her life, from childhood in Kerala to adulthood in Delhi, recalling the recollections, emotions, and experiences that have shaped her as a human being and as a writer.
Roy wrote the memoir after her mother’s passing, and it is an intensely personal account. As Roy observes: “Perhaps I, with my mother’s courage and fierce intelligence, deserve a writer like me as a daughter. Equally, perhaps a writer like me deserves a mother like her. Even more than a daughter in mourning for the death of her mother, I am in mourning for a writer whose most engaging subject has ceased to exist.”
After her internationally renowned novels—The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—this memoir is a fresh milestone in Roy‘s literary career. Mother Mary Comes To Me is already being read in terms of global acclaim for its emotional depth, political acuity, and literary excellence.
Don‘t miss the chance to be a part of this historic book, Mother Mary Comes To Me, launch in Kochi. Book your seat now and be a part of the unveiling of a memoir that threatens to awaken hearts and challenge minds in equal proportion.
Venue: St.Theresas College, Kochi
Date : 2nd Sept 2025