BOOK

This is salvaged : stories

Vara, Vauhini, 1982- author

2025

Overview

\"Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible's specifications. In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.\"-- Amazon.com.

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Subject: Interpersonal relations Fiction. / Short stories, American. / Nouvelles américaines.
• ISBN: 9781324076094, 1324076097

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3622.A7235 A6 2025	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE