# This is Salvaged

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- Authors: [Vauhini Vara](https://www.bookquiver.com/vauhini-vara)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-02-01

## Description

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, 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.

## Editions

### This is Salvaged

- Publisher: grove_press_uk
- ISBN: 978-18-0471-062-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2024-02-01
- Language: en_GB