Arundhati Roy’s debut memoir, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ | News, Sports, Jobs

NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s debut memoir will be released next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother.

Scribner announced Friday that Indian author and activist “Mother Mary comes to me” will be released in September 2025. Roy, best known for her Booker-winning novel “The God of Small Things” said in a statement that she began working on the book after her mother died in September 2022. Mary Roy, whose life was fictionalized in “The God of Small Things” was a renowned educator to whom his daughter dedicated the book and who was hailed by the author as “one of the most ferocious and fabulous” the people she ever knew.

“I’ve been writing this book my whole life” Arundhati Roy said in Friday’s statement. “Perhaps a mother like mine deserved to have a writer like me as a daughter. Similarly, perhaps a writer like me deserved a mother like her. Even more than a daughter mourning the loss of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most passionate subject.”

Roy, 61, also wrote the novel “The Ministry of Supreme Happiness” and non-fiction works such as “The Algebra of Infinite Justice” “Walking with comrades” And “Kashmir.” Scribner calls Roy’s memoir “astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny” book that traces his life from his childhood to the present day, from Kerala to Delhi.