{"product_id":"this-is-salvaged-1","title":"This Is Salvaged","description":"\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":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836063756493,"sku":"9781324076094","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_97518060-2382-4450-8f35-fdf4c4e681aa.jpg?v=1790991927","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/this-is-salvaged-1","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}