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.
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Yaksha: What is the greatest wonder?Yudhisthir: Every man knows that death is the ultimate truth…
What is your purpose, your Dharma, your innate tendency? Your only path to freedom is…
The key to making the best vegetarian Tamil food is cooking it at home. Prema…
'This is the food my parents ate and their parents ate ... It is an…
From the internationally bestselling author of The Heartfulness Way comes a journey to the center…
From the internationally bestselling author of The Heartfulness Way comes a journey to the center…