Arundhati Roy dedicated her debut novel , The God of Small Things , to two people who, it was safe to assume, were her nearest and dearest: “For Mary Roy who grew me up,” she wrote, “Who loved me enough to let me go.” The other dedicatee was more cryptically designated: “For LKC, who, like me, survived.”

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In her new book and first memoir, the Indian writer sheds light on those dedications. LKC is Arundhati Roy’s brother, Lalith Kumar Christopher. The pair of them “survived” a tough upbringing at the hands of their sole provider, their frequently angry and abusive mother. Roy revealed

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