Arundhati Roy - Mother Mary Comes to Me

APA: Roy, Arundhati (2025). Mother Mary Comes to Me. Scribner.

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I have thought of my own life as a footnote to the things that really matter. Never tragic, often hilarious. Or perhaps this is the lie I tell myself. ... Perhaps what I am about to write is a betrayal of my younger self by the person I have become. If so, it's no small sin. But I'm in no position to be the judge of that.

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I often think of sending him [the district collector] a copy of Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. So that he can read about what happened to a family of elite Jews in the town of Ferrara in Italy who thought their deliverance lay in joining the Nazi Party.