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“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…

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