Arundhati Roy is best known for her novel, The God of Small Things. Her new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is a beautiful study of relationships, why they are important, and why they endure.  Roy’s mother was a crusading educator and a courageous feminist at a time when India needed both. She was also a cruel and erratic bully who drove her children away. Love and hate are very complex human emotions. Impossible to fully understand, difficult to control. In an attempt to capture this complexity, Roy describes her mother as “my shelter and my storm.”  This three-part column…

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