The thirtysevenyearold narrator of <strong>Salvage</strong> has decamped from her hectic Manhattan lifestyle to set up home in rural Virginia. Shes escaping a t... » 

The thirtysevenyearold narrator of Salvage has decamped from her hectic Manhattan lifestyle to set up home in rural Virginia. Shes escaping a trauma suffered on the New York subway seeking recovery through solitude and stillness. But as she attempts to create peace in her own company she finds herself increasingly haunted by the painful peculiarities of her childhood. And as she and her mother Lois engage in the complex dance of deciphering and possibly accepting one antohers eccentricities she must decide what she will be able to recoup from her past and what she is capable of throwing away. «