Closing out AAPI month with the first book in the Bone Witch Trilogy by Chinese Filipino writer Rin Chupeco - a self described "pansexual, liberal atheist" writing YA fiction. Chupeco says that their writing often is very experimental, mixing different styles and themes, which led to them writing The Bone Witch in order to tell the story of characters in two different time periods. The Bone Witch follows Tea, a teen with the whose accidental discovery of her ability to raise the dead, pulls her deep into the world of the Ashas. One she thought she knew, but had no idea what it really means to live in that world.