This Is Salvaged: Stories

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.

Author: Vauhini Vara
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393541731

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2023 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 07/10/2023
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 44