This Is Salvaged: Stories
Written by Vauhini Vara
Narrated by Deepa Samuel
4/5
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About this audiobook
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.
Editor's Note
Transformative…
The author of “The Immortal King Rao” — a Pulitzer Prize finalist — delivers a tender and empathetic short story collection about reckoning with loss and finding hope in surprising ways. The titular story follows a struggling artist who, with the help of a group of unhoused men from a local shelter, attempts to build a life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark. The other stories encompass different perspectives and styles, but they share a common theme: the transformative power of human connection.
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