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DELHI — "Someone once asked me what my mother's greatest legacy to me was," Arundhati Roy said at a private gathering in the Indian capital, Delhi, recently. "I said an overactive middle finger."That crack — sharp, irreverent, wickedly funny — is the perfect way into the Booker Prize-winning author and activist's new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. It is the story of Mary Roy, her formidable, mercurial mother: feminist icon, educator, crusader, eccentric, bully, inspiration. A woman who, as her daughter writes, was "my shelter and my storm".Arundhati Roy was an architect, actor, screenwriter and production designer before turning novelist. Her debut The God of Small Things — a childhood-inspired family saga — won the 1997 Booker. It was...
September 05, 2025
'My mother was my shelter and storm': Arundhati Roy on her fierce new memoir
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