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Wild and ambitious . . . [with] something ablaze at its core. It burns." -The New York Times Book ReviewA 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 justice-or 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,...

This "addictive and headlong" (Lauren Groff) debut novel traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman.My grandmother, sitting at her doily-covered table, marmalade on her cheek, explained that the aswang is all the evil bad things that a town or a society would want to deny-eventually it has to come out, has to be personified into something or the truth will reveal itself."Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead.Ins...