Welcome to our October Book Club event!
The theme for this month is Family Dynamics! We will be reading Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
"Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”
“Heart-smashed” by her mother Mary’s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.” And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author’s journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today."
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/224004055-mother-mary-comes-to-me
Happy reading!
*price of the book club is the cost of drink/snack of choice from the cafe
