In eleven stories The World With Its Mouth Open maps the inner lives of the people of Kashmir as they walk the uncertain terrain of their days fractured from years of war. From a shopkeepers encounter with a mannequin to an expectant mother walking on a precarious road to a young boy wavering between dreams and reality to two dogs wandering the city these stories weave in larger devastating themes of loss grief violence longing and injustice with the threads of smaller everyday realities that co