Mouth: Stories

Puloma Ghosh's debut collection explores grief, sexuality, and bodily autonomy through tales of creatures and gore, offering a singular sharpness and reimagining of ordinary struggles.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 11 June 2024
Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Puloma Ghosh's debut collection, "Mouth," explores themes of grief, sexuality, and bodily autonomy through tales of creatures and gore. The collection embraces the bizarre and absurd, pushing reality to reach for truth. In "Desiccation," a teen figure skater with necrophiliac fantasies confronts a vampire-like figure at the rink. In "The Fig Tree," a woman returns to Kolkata and grapples with the presence of her dead mother or a shakchunni, or both. "Nip" captures the consuming nature of infatuation, while "Natalya" is a haunting autopsy of an ex-lover. In "Persimmons," a girl comes to terms with her community's sacrifice. Ghosh's writing is full of fangs and talons, revealing the awkward and unmentionable aspects of our lives with a singular sharpness. Through surreal and captivating prose, Ghosh delves into otherworldly spaces to reimagine ordinary struggles of isolation, longing, and the aching desires of our flesh.

Weight: 322g
Dimension: 217 x 148 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781662602474