Reportedly, award-winning author Arundhati Roy will publish a book titled “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” which will provide readers with an insight into her nuanced connection with her mother. September 2025 is when the book—published by Penguin India—is scheduled to be released. Like most of her writing, Booker Prize winner Roy’s upcoming memoir promises to be a moving, funny, and stirring account of the complex dynamics with her mother, Mary Roy, whom she calls “my shelter and my storm.”

Following Mary’s death in September 2022—she had been estranged from her since she was 18—Arunathi Roy set out to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. She describes this as “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.”

She was “heart smashed” and “more than a little ashamed” by the depth of her reaction to losing her mother. She therefore took solace in writing out her complex recollections of Mary and their voyage together, which took them from Kerala to Delhi and back again.

Speaking about the upcoming book, Roy expressed, “I have been writing this book all my life. Perhaps 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.”

“Filled with heart and nerve, humour and pathos, and the very raw edges of love, Mother Mary Comes to Me is a visceral and unflinching account of personal and political awakening,” stated Manasi Subramaniam, Editor-in-Chief of Penguin Press, Penguin Random House India. We are thrilled to provide it to the global community.”

Roy, who is best known for her critically praised books The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, promises her upcoming memoir will be yet another honest and intimate depiction of love, grief, and complex mother-daughter dynamics.