Arundhati Roy talks about her new book Mother Mary Comes to Me. The book reveals her troubled and often stormy relationship with her mother but it’s also autobiographical about select periods of her own life. As a result it reveals Arundhati in a light you’ve never seen her in before. There’s no doubt this is a memoir like no other. In fact it’s an opportunity to get to know a side of Arundhati Roy that we were ignorant of or even unaware of.

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