We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize-winning author of "The God of Small Things," is now publishing her first memoir. In ...

“Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has just lost her most enthralling subject.” Roy has become one of the most fearless voices for ...

Kochi: After Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize, a fruit seller asked Mary Roy if she was the author’s mother. “She called me up and told me she felt like she had been slapped,” Roy said, laughing at ...

Mother Mary Comes to Me begins with Roy’s childhood, in which she recounts moving from Assam, India, to the hill station town of Ooty, and later to Kerala, where her mother eventually set up a school.