Bibliograph

This is salvaged, stories, Vauhini Vara

Type

Label

This is salvaged, stories, Vauhini Vara

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

This is salvaged

Oclc number

1399369465

Responsibility statement

Vauhini Vara

Sub title

stories

Summary

"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

Target audience

adult

Classification