This Is Salvaged
Stories
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Narrated by:
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Deepa Samuel
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Written by:
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Vauhini Vara
About this listen
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
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.
©2023 Vauhini Vara (P)2023 TantorWhat the critics say
"A poignant collection of stories that glimpse the salvation of human connection in the midst of modern alienation."—Kirkus Reviews