And In Our Hour of Darkness, Writer Arundhati Roy - Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

“Sometimes I feel that I’m not going to write again,” says Arundhati Roy, “but then it becomes harder to keep quiet than to write it.”   Few writers have bridged the personal and political as powerfully as Arundhati Roy. With her first memoir, fittingly titled <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mother-Mary-Comes-to-Me/Arundhati-Roy/9781668094716?fbclid=IwY2xjawMBsEtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrZ2xUT3pOWms4eUM3SEttAR6GaMadyWPxi4Rl0Mm3SJr6TvrpPsaSDicRSJrl56o6IWPK5CqNZ_Pxj2wMBQ_aem_6gGFPwk92t7C09iLVgKRkA">Mother Mary Comes to Me</a>, she turns to her turbulent relationship with her late mother, Mary Roy, a pioneering feminist who reshaped Indian law.   Act I: Let It Be   We begin with the imagery that animates the new book (4:10), her tumultuous household growing up (10:00), and how she sifted through those memories while writing The God of Small Things and <e...