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Book SynopsisWild and ambitious . . . [with] something ablaze at its core. It burns. The New York Times Book Review
A Tiny Upward Shove is inspired by Melissa Chadburn''s Filipino heritage and its folklore, as it traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman transformed by death into an agent of justiceor mercy.
Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead.
Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the stuff of her grandmother's old Filipino storiesan aswang, a creature of mystery and vengeance. She spent her time on earth on the margins; shot like a pinball through a childhood of loss, she was a veteran of Child Protective Services and a survivor, but always reacting, watching from a distance, understanding very little of her own life, let alone the lives of others. Death brings her into the hearts and minds of those she has knowneven her killeras she accesses their memories and s
