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Discuss art, life, culture and creativity at our monthly Book Club. This month's title connects to ideas and themes in ‘The God of Small Things: Faith and Popular Culture’.

Ticket includes light refreshments. Members receive 20% off current and past Book Club titles at the QAGOMA Stores.

Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) by Arundhati Roy

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things. This is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Distraught and even a little ashamed at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle – unique and simultaneously universal – of the author’s life, from childhood to present, from Kerala to Delhi. With the scale, sweep and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace – a memoir like no other.

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June-August titles

• Enclave (2022) by Claire G. Coleman

• Praiseworthy (2023) by Alexis Wright

• Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) by Arundhati Roy