| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Author | Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize winner for The God of Small Things) |
| Book Title | Mother Mary Comes to Me |
| Release Date | September 2, 2025 |
| Publisher | Penguin Hamish Hamilton |
| Page Count | 374 pages |
| Genre | Memoir (literary, deeply personal) |
| Key Themes | Mother-daughter relationship, grief, feminism, artistic formation |
| Central Figure | Mary Roy (Arundhati's mother, educator, founder of Pallikoodam school) |
| Tone & Style | Unflinching honesty, poetic prose, novel-like narrative |
| Notable Aspects | Explores emotional scars, childhood trauma, and intellectual influence |
| Trigger Event | Mary Roy's death (September 1, 2022) acted as a catalyst for writing |
| Literary Context | Compared to Jeet Thayil's Elsewhereans (2025), but more introspective |
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