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Marga Ortigas, "God's Ashes: Apocrypha" (Penguin, 2024)
Climate change. The refugee crisis. The rise of social media.These big social questions—and others—inspired journalist Marga Ortigas in the creation of her new novel God’s Ashes (Penguin Southeast Asia, 2024) , a piece of speculative fiction set in a very different 2023. A transnational crime unites the book’s characters, rich and poor, on a journey throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, all coming together in a book that investigates human connection, the plight of stateless people, and environmental contamination.In this interview, Marga and I talk about what inspired her book…
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