ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, VOGUE, BABELIA, EL CULTURAL AND FOYLES

The long-awaited return of a "superlatively brilliant" author (The New York Review of Books). The Booker Prize winner for The God of Small Things delivers a powerful memoir about her mother, a global publishing event.

Devastated by her mother's death and, at the same time, puzzled and "more than a little embarrassed" by the intensity of her reaction, Arundhati Roy began writing these memoirs in an attempt to understand her feelings toward the mother she fled from at eighteen, "not because she didn't love her, but to be able to keep loving her."

This is how this amazing story begins, the book that Roy has been "writing all her life": a radically honest, funny, and deeply moving text. With the breadth, scope, and depth of iconic novels like The God of Small Things, this book is a hymn to freedom and a tribute to thorny love, a final embrace between mother and daughter.