Mother Mary Comes to Me

ISBN: 1668094711

Author: Roy, Arundhati

Condition: New

A New York Times BestsellerNamed One of The New York Times Book Reviews Top Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Nominated for the Women's Prize for NonfictionOne 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 Arundhatis life both as a woman and a writer.In this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.Mother Mary Comes to Me, is an intimate chronicle, full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelists unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. She describes how she came to be 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.Heart-smashed by Marys death, yet puzzled and more than a little ashamed by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, not because I didnt love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose (The New Republic). An ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace-Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir like no other.