Arundhati Roy’s first memoir, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me,’ to be published in September 2025

AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 “Mother Mary Comes to Me” will be released in September 2025. Roy, best known for her Booker-winning novel “The God of Small Things,” says in a statement that she began working on the book after her mother’s death in September 2022. Mary Roy was a renowned educator to whom her daughter dedicated “The God of Small Things.”