{"product_id":"this-is-salvaged-stories-0393541738","title":"This Is Salvaged: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393541738\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vara, Vauhini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New Yorker Best Book of 2023  A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023  The Frontlist, Adam Morgan's Substack, Favorite Book of 2023  A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023  A Best Book of Fall 2023 by Bustle.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 Bibles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855929475360,"sku":"NEW0393541738","price":12.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61v9DMHt2TL.jpg?v=1781543902","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/this-is-salvaged-stories-0393541738","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}