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One of the 20 Best Books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly Child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, lover—in these stories of uncanny originality, a prize-winning writer pushes intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty.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, & the relationships between self & 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. °°° The stories in this striking collection from Vara (The Immortal King Rao) depict protagonists yearning for connection. “The Irates,”

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Author

Vauhini Vara

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.; W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393541731

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction