Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy – an uncompromising memoir told through a difficult parent-child relationship

By Dominic O'Key, Teaching Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy marks the passing of her late mother by fathoming her on the page for the first time. “I wrote versions of her in my books”, Roy explains, “but I never wrote her.”

Doing so is difficult, even painful for Roy because of who her mother was and how she mothered. To her students, Mrs Roy was a committed headmistress who left a legacy of learning. To her country, Mary Roy was a tireless advocate for Syrian Christians, whose landmark legal case in India’s supreme…

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