From an atavistic folk-myth to a modern-day portrait of the allure of militancy, Muddasir''s unbridled imagination crafts stories about ordinary people of a living dystopia. With a rare forensic economy of language, he writes of mothers, lovers and others making uneasy choices in order to survive the day, navigating a present that constantly needs to rewrite the past, even as it confronts a fractured future that allows for more death than hope.