Dazzling! Irreverent! Miraculous! Arundhati Roy’s spellbinding memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me , lays out the cosmos of her life, with the centripetal force her mother, Mrs Mary Roy. With gracious wit, Roy mourns her mother in all her complexity – a woman who harmed and nurtured in tandem.

Raising her children as a divorced single parent in 1960s India, Mrs Roy long chafed against social taboos. She became a trailblazer, making havoc of gendered expectation. She took her nearest and dearest to trial over unjust inheritance laws and built her own renowned school in Kerala. She carved her place in society as a beloved, legendary headmistress – deemed equal to a man in the eyes of her community.

Though Mrs Roy inflicted enormous demands on her inner circle, she also offered up new shini

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