A Tiny Upward Shove: A Novel

By: Melissa Chadburn Fiction Hardcover Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 352 Pages This book it part of our “Books for Good” program which donates 10% of this purchase to charity. It may have slight shelf wear and will have a discreet marking on the edge of the pages. Learn more about the “Books for Good” program here. “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