What Daughters Do with Inherited Damage
Two memoirs confront maternal authority and its damage. Jennette McCurdy seeks distance from the past. Arundhati Roy traces how it remains inside literature
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Arundhati Roy
Political history enters private life through caste, state force and inherited memory.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
A review of Arundhati Roy’s memoir as a disciplined record of formation whose composure ultimately limits its emotional reach