{"product_id":"mouth-stories-9781662602474","title":"Mouth: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This surreal collection of stories will blow your mind.\" --\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These stories are so sharp, so strange, so precise - like perfect razors, meant to cut to the heart and open it up to the gasp of pain but also, to astonishing beauty.\" --Amber Sparks, author of \u003ci\u003eAnd I Do Not Forgive You\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Mouth \u003c\/i\u003eis a work that will leave you forever changed.\" --Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Drop Is a Man's Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBESTIARY \u003c\/i\u003eMEETS \u003ci\u003eTHE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED \u003c\/i\u003eIN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL SHORT STORIES \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this debut collection, Puloma Ghosh spins tales of creatures and gore to explore grief, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. Embracing the bizarre and absurd, \u003ci\u003eMouth \u003c\/i\u003estretches reality to reach for truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Desiccation\" follows a teen figure skater with necrophiliac fantasies who is convinced the other Indian girl at the rink is a vampire. When a woman returns to Kolkata in \"The Fig Tree,\" she can't tell if she is haunted by her dead mother or a shakchunni -- or both. \"Nip\" bottles up the consuming and addictive nature of infatuation, while \"Natalya\" is a hair-raising autopsy of an ex-lover. In \"Persimmons,\" a girl comes to terms with her own community sacrifice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of fangs and talons, \u003ci\u003eMouth\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the otherwise awkward and unmentionable with a singular sharpness. Through surreal and captivating prose, Puloma Ghosh delves into otherworldly spaces to reimagine ordinary struggles of isolation, longing, and the aching desires of our flesh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Astra House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781662602474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224","brand":"Puloma Ghosh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43972191781045,"sku":"9781662602474","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_49c21da2-d8d5-482f-8272-e0b75bc62db1.jpg?v=1713282527","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mouth-stories-9781662602474","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}