Tickets include a copy of Arundhati Roy’s new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me.
Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. She has also published several works of nonfiction including The End of Imagination, The Doctor and the Saint, My Seditious Heart, and Azadi. Her forthcoming memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is a soaring account 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. Roy lives in Delhi.
Deepa Fernandes is known nationally for her wide ranging interviews on NPR’s Here and Now. She has reported on global conflicts, climate disasters, and political upheavals, covering issues like education, immigration, poverty, and women’s and children’s rights for NPR and The San Francisco Chronicle among other outlets. Deepa has been awarded a prestigious 2025-26 fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, where she will write a book.
If your ticket comes with a book and you are unable to attend this event, please call Marcus Books at 510-652-2344 to arrange for pick-up (3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland). Books are available for pick-up at Marcus Books up to 7 days following the event.
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