Mother Mary Comes To Me is the first-ever memoir by author Arundhati Roy, tracing her life from a childhood in Kerala to literary fame and political activism through the lens of her volatile, deeply complex relationship with her mother, Mary RoyRoy describes her mother an extraordinary, singular, and fiercely independent iconoclast as both "my shelter and my storm." Mary Roy was a renowned educator who founded the progressive Pallikoodam school in Kottayam and famously won a landmark 1986 Supreme Court case granting Syrian Christian women equal rights to ancestral property.While celebrated publicly as a pioneer and change-maker, at home she was a confounding, intense, and emotionally turbulent figure. Roy details running away from home at the age of eighteen not out of a lack of love, but to preserve it and moving to Delhi to navigate architecture, early struggles, and an independent life.