Mi refugio y mi tormenta

Devastated by her mother’s death and, at the same time, bewildered and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her reaction, Arundhati Roy began writing this memoir in an attempt to understand her feelings toward the mother she had fled at the age of eighteen—"not because I didn't love her, but so I could go on loving her." Thus begins this extraordinary story—the book Roy has been "writing all her life"—a radically honest, funny, and deeply moving work. Possessing the breadth, scope, and depth of iconic novels like *The God of Small Things*, this book is a hymn to freedom and a tribute to a thorny love: a final embrace between mother and daughter.