A Tiny Upward Shove: A Novel
by Melissa Chadburn
Buy on Amazon"A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world"--
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"Literary alchemist Melissa Chadburn opens her debut novel with a young woman being strangled and murdered; propels the book through a tale of abuse, heartache and loss; and ends on an affirmation of love. Chadburn transposes her voice as a muckraking investigative journalist into an aswang — a Filipino spirit of the dead. It is the aswang’s job to right the wrong done to Marina, the victim. As narrator, the aswang brings readers into the heart and mind of both murdered and murderer, ripping open the underbelly of American capitalism. The result is gripping, provocative and unforgettable."
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