Author : Vauhini Vara
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541746
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)
Book Synopsis This Is Salvaged: Stories by : Vauhini Vara
Download or read book This Is Salvaged: Stories written by Vauhini Vara and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for The Story Prize Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 • The Frontlist, Adam Morgan's Substack, Favorite Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023 • Named a Best Book of Fall 2023 by Bustle 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.