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This Is Salvaged
[Paperback - 2024]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Atlantic Books Uk | ISBN: 9781804710623 | Pages: 208
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Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, 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.

Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and is the awardwinning author of The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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