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It was also important for me to push against the common tropes of popular true crime narratives: The body. The truth is the most interesting story, but the truth is complicated. The women of your novel are portrayed as complicated, contradictory, and complex, not just as sainted victims. Murder, specifically the brutal murder of women, is central to the storyline, but not in the way that true crime narratives and popular fiction narratives often portray it. Which is that she is merely a misunderstood transpacific intersectional feminist. This gave me the comfort and creative confidence to supplement with my own interpretation.

She has different names, different ways of presenting: a vampire, a werewoman, a spinster. But as the novel states, depending on which province youвЂ™re from you can have a completely different concept of the aswang. My lolaвЂ™s (grandmotherвЂ™s) version of the aswang was a punishing aswang, вЂIf you misbehave, the Aswang will get you.вЂ™ The aswang is mostly rumored to be a creature who flies onto rooftops at night with a long thin proboscis, with which she sucks up little babies.

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IвЂ™m curious about much of this folklore you grew up knowing, how much research about it informed you, and how much license you gave yourself to merely invent. Filipino culture, language and folklore are intricately woven into the storytelling of вЂњA Tiny, Upward Shove.вЂќ Our primary narrator in fact is the supernatural being, an aswang, which inhabits Marina, a young woman who is murdered.

Fiction allowed me to bring in magic and memory. In this case, I wanted to tell a WHOLE story, unbound by the limitations of, say, the both-sidism in journalism. That is, finding the right container for the piece. Because I work in so many different genres, whenever I approach a new piece I often find that early part of writing container hunting. I knew my larger project would always trouble our ideas of justice. How, for you, might fiction allow for a different kind of truth to be told? Please talk a little about how this move into fiction fits into the work youвЂ™ve done thus far. YouвЂ™ve also been a longtime advocate for social justice issues and economic equality. Some readers might know you from your nonfiction. The book has garnered wide critical praise: Hector Tobar, author of вЂњThe Barbarian Nurseries,вЂќ called Chadburn a вЂњfiercely original, brave writerвЂќ who вЂњfinds the lyrical and the deeply human in seemingly dark and impenetrable landscapes.вЂќД¬hadburn, who was a recent guest on Southern California News GroupвЂ™s Bookish video series, answered questions via email about her novel and her writing progress.

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More: Want stories on books, authors and bestsellers? Get the free Book Pages newsletter candidate in creative writing at the University of Southern California with an impressive list of published articles, many of which pull from her experience growing up poor in the foster care system. вЂњA Tiny, Upward ShoveвЂќ feels like a novel only Chadburn could write, combining her unique history and education: She is a Ph.D. Its power must be experienced on the page.

But this synopsis tells you next to nothing about all the levels of meaning within the complex debut novel by Melissa Chadburn, nor its kaleidoscope of poetic language and raw imagery. You could boil the plot of вЂњA Tiny Upward ShoveвЂќ down to this: ItвЂ™s about a murdered young woman who transforms into a supernatural being to exact revenge on her killer.

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