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Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Sunil Yapa

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Jan 13, 2016 Nicole Adrienne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2016, fiction, politics

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist takes the reader through the day of November 30, 1999 on the Seattle streets. I can’t recall if I have ever read a novel that takes it’s course over one day, with the exception of flashbacks from the multiple narrators. Yapa does this well through his, beautiful, almost lyrical prose. Our narrators are all people with very different reasons for being out in Seattle that day with crowds soaring to roughly 40,000 demonstrators. We start with nineteen year ...more

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Feb 20, 2017 Robynn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, writer-of-color

I think this book made it on to my radar because of a friend's Facebook post requesting good reads by authors of color, or maybe this made a listicle about reading for the era of #45 (president, that is). In either case, I'm so glad I found it at my local library.

Set in one day during the WTO protests, author Sunil Yapa takes us into the lives of multiple players on the scene: a deputy minister of finance, the Seattle chief of police and a couple of his staff, and various protester. With compell ...more

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