The World with Its Mouth Open -- Zahid Rafiq, Paperback Religion - Social Issues This is for all the

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and families throughout the country

He is with us even when we weep at the desolate

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The World with Its Mouth Open -- Zahid Rafiq, Paperback Religion - Social Issues This is for all theA New Yorker Best Book of the Year As heard on NPR's Weekend Edition Finalist for the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award "An utterly exquisite debut." Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves In eleven stories, The World With Its Mouth Open follows the inner lives of people in Kashmir as they walk the uncertain terrain of their days, fractured from years of war. From a shopkeeper's encounter with a mannequin, to an expectant mother walking on a precarious