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This Is Salvaged : Stories

By Vauhini Vara

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About the book

A daring and original voice, trembling with power and anger and vulnerability.” – Namita Gokhale

“It takes tremendous courage and wit to look with wonder at the darkest, most shameful places in the human heart and make them hilarious, tender, and deeply moving; Vauhini Vara … can do this magic with astonishing ease.” – Lauren Groff

In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged search fervently for meaning through one another:

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…

One sister consumes the ashes of another…

And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible’s specifications…

In stories that are wise and funny, beautiful and strange, Vauhini Vara-author of the award-winning The Immortal King Rao, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-writes with compassion, but without sentimentality, about loss and longing and attempting to find hope in the midst of grief.

Pages: 208

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara has worked as a journalist and an editor for The New YorkerThe Atlantic, and the New York Times MagazineHer fiction has been honored by the O. Henry Prize and the Rona JaffeFoundation. Her first novel, The Immortal King Rao, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize for fiction as well as the JK Paper–Times of India AutHER Award for best debut.

 

 

 

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