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This is salvaged : stories / Vauhini Vara.

Vara, Vauhini, 1982- (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393541731
  • ISBN: 0393541738
  • Physical Description: 185 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Summary, etc.:
"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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Subject: Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Short stories.

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