NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother.
Scribner announced Friday that the Indian author and activist's 鈥淢other Mary Comes to Me鈥� will be released in September 2025. Roy, best known for her Booker-winning novel 鈥淭he God of Small Things,鈥� said in a statement that she began working on the book after her mother's death in September 2022. Mary Roy, whose life was fictionalized in 鈥淭he God of Small Things,鈥� was a renowned educator to whom her daughter dedicated the book and who was eulogized by the author as 鈥渙ne of the fiercest, most fabulous鈥� people she ever knew.
鈥淚 have been writing this book all my life,鈥� Arundhati Roy said in Friday's statement. 鈥淧erhaps a mother like mine deserved a writer like me as a daughter. Equally, perhaps a writer like me deserved a mother like her. Even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject."
Roy, 61, has also written the novel 鈥淭he Ministry of Utmost Happiness鈥� and such nonfiction as 鈥淭he Algebra of Infinite Justice,鈥� 鈥淲alking with the Comrades鈥� and 鈥淭he Doctor and the Saint." Scribner is calling Roy's memoir an 鈥渁stonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny鈥� book that traces her life from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi."
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
