Arundhati Roy dedicated her debut novel, The God of Small Things, to two people who, it was safe to assume, were her nearest and dearest: “For Mary Roy who grew me up,” she wrote, “Who loved me enough ...

The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration. Arundhati Roy with her brother ...

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.

Ever since Arundhati Roy's writing made her famous after her first novel won her the Booker Prize nearly 30 years ago, she's used her words and her celebrity to write on injustice, minority rights and ...

It is hard to overstate the literary impact, in 1997, of Arundhati Roy’s début novel, “The God of Small Things.” A family drama set in a small town in Kerala, in southern India, it was evocatively ...

Arundhati Roy is best known for her Booker Prize-winning novel, “The God of Small Things.” Now Roy is turning inwards with the release of her memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” written in response to ...

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 ...

In her new book and first memoir, the Indian writer sheds light on those dedications. LKC is Arundhati Roy’s brother, Lalith Kumar Christopher. The pair of them “survived” a tough upbringing at the ...