This Is Salvaged: Stories by Vara, Vauhini

This Is Salvaged: Stories

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being...
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Author: Vauhini Vara
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Language: English
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This Is Salvaged: Stories by Vara, Vauhini

This Is Salvaged: Stories

$27.81

This Is Salvaged: Stories

$27.81
Author: Vauhini Vara
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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: 03/18/2025
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781324076094


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2025 pg. 62

About the Author
Vara, Vauhini: - Vauhini Vara has been a journalist and editor for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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