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A tiny upward shove / Melissa Chadburn.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374277758
- ISBN: 0374277753
- Physical Description: 342 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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| Subject: | Pickton, Robert William > Fiction. Victims of crimes > Fiction. Serial murderers > Fiction. Foster children > Fiction. Pickton, Robert William. Victims of crimes. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Fiction. Novels. Magic realist fiction. Biographical fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Upper Skagit Library | CHA (Text) | 1012366 | Fiction | Available | - |
Melissa Chadburnâs writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, The Best American Food Writing, and many other publications. Her extensive reporting on the child welfare system appears in the Netflix docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Melissa is a worker lover and through her own labor and literary citizenship strives to upend economic violence. Her mother taught her how to sharpen a pencil with a knife and she's basically been doing that ever since. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and lives in greater Los Angeles.