In Anu Mahadev's A mouthful of sky, sensual and sexual pleasures, joys, and freedoms are woven together with gendered inequities, misogyny, and cruelty. The narrator is exceedingly matter-of-factly vulnerable and courageous as she shows the complexities, contradictions, cruelties, and depths of this relationship with complete self-acceptance. With a solid certainty in spite of circumstances. And with forthright insistence of her own pleasure. But it's never simple. Mahadev's voice is like none I've ever heard--complex, often heartbreaking, strong, and forthright into her lyricism. -- Sarah Vap, author of Winter: Effulgences and Devotions