01733cam a2200337 i 4500 1011071706 TxGeo 20231012120000.0 230129s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780393541731 hbk. 0393541738 hbk. (OCoLC)1362864870 YDX eng dTnLvILS rda TnLvILS TxGeo rda Vara, Vauhini, author. This is salvaged : stories / Vauhini Vara. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2023. 185 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Irates -- I, buffalo -- This is salvaged -- You are not alone -- Unknown unknowns -- The hormone hypothesis -- Puppet master made the puppets -- The eighteen girls -- What next -- Sibyls. "Ten stories of uncanny beauty. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia, and prods her to give up her secrets. A pair of grieving teenages audition for work as phone-sex operators. As a newly unemployed woman watches a field of bison, she feels herself turning into one of them. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, a lovelorn experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: a monumental piece about humanity's shared purpose."-- Provided by publisher. 20240625. Coming of age Fiction. Love Fiction. Grief Fiction. Aging Fiction. Dementia Fiction. Short stories. QS5