Mother Mary Comes to Me
Read by
Arundhati Roy
Release:
09/02/2025
Release:
09/02/2025
Runtime:
11h 30m
Runtime:
11h 30m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Arundhati Roy’s moving performance illuminates her tumultuous experience of being raised in India by her fierce mother…Moments of quiet humor and an absence of self-pity add to the richness of Roy’s account…an insightful exploration of a mother-daughter relationship and India’s culture.”
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A New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller
A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Books of the Year Pick
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune Pick of 2025's Best Books
A New Yorker Best Book of 2025
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2025
The Independent (London) Best Book of the Year
The Guardian (London) Best Book of the Year
Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction
One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.
“Heart-smashed” by the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen and shaken by the intensity of her response, Arundhati Roy began this remarkable memoir—a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is: shaped by circumstance but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”
With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction
One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.
“Heart-smashed” by the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen and shaken by the intensity of her response, Arundhati Roy began this remarkable memoir—a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is: shaped by circumstance but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”
With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.
Release:
2025-09-02
2025-09-02
Runtime:
Runtime:
11h 30m
11h 30m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.75 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781668132678
9781668132692
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Simon & Schuster Audio
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