A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn [in Shelf Awareness]
28 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost
Melissa Chadburn's electrifying debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, opens with gruesome death: "Dying hurts like f*ck-all everything." The description comes from "Aswang," a shape-shifting creature of Filipinx folklore, who knows "about the slow agonies of death" because she reanimates the body of 18-year-old Marina,...