{"product_id":"mother-mary-comes-to-me-hardcover","title":"Mother Mary Comes to Me - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed One of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Top Ten Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Nominated for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that \"pulses with compassion and moral outrage\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) from the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e, is an intimate chronicle, \"full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist's 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Heart-smashed\" by Mary's 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 didn't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, \u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e \"builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e). An ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--\u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir like no other.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArundhati Roy is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Roy has also published several works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eAzadi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Algebra of Infinite Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eField Notes on Democracy: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eListening to Grasshoppers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBroken Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2024, the PEN Pinter Prize for telling \"urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty.\" She lives in Delhi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9.31 x 6.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51885167804704,"sku":"9781668094716","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0Z7kzSYr-v9781668094716.webp?v=1781890186","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mother-mary-comes-to-me-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}