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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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