{"product_id":"9781324076094","title":"This Is Salvaged: Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the High Plains Book Award Longlisted for the Story Prize and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award One of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e’s Best Books of the Year \"Masterfully makes anew what it feels like to be alive.” —Jonathan Escoffery, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003ePushing 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 \u003cem\u003eThis Is Salvaged\u003c\/em\u003e, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50078889804016,"sku":"9781324076094","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324076094","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}