This is salvaged :stories

Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393541731.
;
0393541738.
Call Number
FICTION
Description
185 pages ;24 cm
Contents (as listed on item)
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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.
Copies: 7 of 7 copies available
Available copies: Madison PL-Sequoya, Adult: Vara Madison PL-Hawthorne, Adult: Vara Madison PL-Central, 1st Floor: Vara Wis. Rapids-McMillan Memorial Library, Adult: VAR Madison PL-Ashman, Adult: Vara Madison PL-Lakeview, Adult: Vara Middleton Public Library, Adult, Main Level: VARA Vauhini