{"product_id":"books-this-is-salvaged-by-vauhini-vara","title":"This is Salvaged","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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670760349969,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781804710623.jpg?v=1781512618","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-this-is-salvaged-by-vauhini-vara","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}