What We Salvage is a gritty urban novel set in a harsh industrial city where violence, poverty, and subcultures collide. Two brothers-by-circumstance navigate a landscape of skinheads, drug dealers, and suspicious cops, where every alley and nightclub holds potential danger.

Amid unforgiving streets, squat houses, and underground clubs, they build a fragile tribe of friends whose loyalty and understanding become their only defence against constant hardship. The suicide of their mutual girlfriend shatters their tenuous stability, sending each brother down a radically different path.

One flees the city in search of distance and solace, while the other undergoes a haunting transformation from poet and musician into a raw, street-level prophet. Emerging as an "urban shaman," he blurs the line between sanity and revelation, shaping a ruthless reality from grief and rage.

Blending poetry-infused prose with the brutal energy of punk, the novel evokes the emotional vulnerability of classic coming-of-age tales set against a world as merciless as any dystopia. It explores friendship, loyalty, identity, and the desperate search for redemption amid systemic neglect and street violence.

Themes and appeal

• Gritty portrayal of street life and youth subcultures
• Exploration of grief, trauma, and transformation
• Poetic, experimental "postmodern punk" narrative voice
• For readers drawn to dark, uncompromising literary fiction

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