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Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and is the awardwinning author of The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.A <b>dazzling </b>collection full of <b>spellbinding </b>prose...Through unrestrained characters and fresh scenarios, Vara masterfully makes anew what it feels like to be alive
- Jonathan Escoffery, New York Times Book Review
In these tales, Vara has captured the fantasies, griefs and longings of life. From keen-eyed girlhood to delusional middle-age, the characters reach for more than is possible, falter, then reach for more. <i>This Is Salvaged </i>is <b>a book for readers who need clarity and hope </b>- that is to say: everybody.
- Andrew Sean Greer, author of LESS,
It takes tremendous courage and wit to look with wonder at the darkest, most shameful places in the human heart and make them <b>hilarious, tender and deeply moving</b>; Vauhini Vara, with her grand-scale compassion and moral complexity in <i>This is Salvaged</i>, can do this magic with astonishing ease.
- Lauren Groff, author of MATRIX,
The stories in Vauhini Vara's <i>This Is Salvaged</i> are <b>brilliant, entirely human, abidingly strange.</b> She is one of our most inventive writers of fiction, as well as visionary, with a gift for writing about grief both extraordinary and ordinary. <i>This Is Salvaged</i> is unforgettable.
- Elizabeth McCracken, author of THE HERO OF THIS BOOK,
I finished <i>This is Salvaged</i> and immediately wanted to re-read it. What a ride. Vauhini Vara's writing is immersive, yielding stories that are <b>clever and surprising, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny</b>. A brilliant, deeply satisfying collection.
- Deesha Philyaw, author of THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES,
These dazzling stories take a kaleidoscopic and ferociously tender look at loss and what people hold onto or discover in the wake of it...Vara has written a <b>wholly original, insightful and powerful</b> collection.
- Danielle Evans, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS,
<b>A poignant collection</b> of stories that glimpse the salvation of human connection in the midst of modern alienation.
Kirkus Reviews
Vara invigorates with emotional insights, whimsy, and a precision with language. It's <b>a remarkable achievement</b>
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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.