Chadburn Melissa - A Tiny Upward Shove A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Wild 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 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 the stuff of her grandmother's old Filipino stories an 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 known even her killer as she accesses their memories and sees anew the meaning of her own. In her nine days as an aswang while she considers whether to exact vengeance on her killer she also traces back finally able to see what led these two lost souls to a crushingly inevitable conclusion. In A Tiny Upward Shove the debut novelist Melissa Chadburn charts the heartbreaking journeys of two of society's castoffs as they make their way to each other and their roles as criminal and victim. What does it mean to be on the brink? When are those moments that change not only our lives but our very selves? And how in this impossible world full of cruelty and negligence can we rouse ourselves toward mercy?
Title: A Tiny Upward Shove A Novel
Author(s): Chadburn Melissa
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250863157
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/11/2023