This is salvaged : stories / Vauhini Vara.
| Author/creator | Vara, Vauhini, 1982- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | 185 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The irates -- I, Buffalo -- This is salvaged -- You are not alone -- Unknown unknowns -- The hormone hypothesis -- Puppet master made the puppets -- The eighteen girls -- What next -- Sibyls. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Genre/form | short stories. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Psychological fiction. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Psychological fiction. |
| Genre/form | Nouvelles. |
| ISBN | 9780393541731 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0393541738 (hardback) |