This is salvaged :stories
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Publisher and Date
New York, NY :W. W. Norton & Company,[2023]
©2023
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393541731.
; 0393541738.
Call Number
FICTION
Description
185 pages ;24 cm
Contents (as listed on item)
System Control Number
(OCoLC)1399369465
Summary"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."--Provided by publisher.
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