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Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Sunil Yapa
Lee Boudreaux Books
January 2016
On Sale: January 12, 2016
Featuring: Victor
400 pages
ISBN: 0316386537
EAN: 9780316386531
Kindle: B014E0EQKQ
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Literature and Fiction
The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World
Spin in this electrifying debut novel set amid the
heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor--a nomadic,
scrappy teenager who's run away from home--sets out to join
the throng of WTO demonstrators determined to shut down the
city. With the proceeds, he plans to buy a plane ticket and
leave Seattle forever, but it quickly becomes clear that the
history-making 50,000 anti-globalization protestors--from
anarchists to environmentalists to teamsters--are testing
the patience of the police, and what started out as a
peaceful protest is threatening to erupt into violence. Over the course of one life-altering afternoon, the fates of
seven people will change forever: foremost among them police
Chief Bishop, the estranged father Victor hasn't seen in
three years, two protesters struggling to stay true to their
non-violent principles as the day descends into chaos, two
police officers in the street, and the coolly elegant
financial minister from Sri Lanka whose life, as well as his
country's fate, hinges on getting through the angry crowd,
out of jail, and to his meeting with the President of the
United States. When Chief Bishop reluctantly unleashes tear
gas on the unsuspecting crowd, it seems his hopes for
reconciliation with his son, as well as the future of his
city, are in serious peril. In this raw and breathtaking novel, Yapa marries a deep rage
with a deep humanity. In doing so he casts an unflinching
eye on the nature and limits of compassion, and the
heartbreaking difference between what is right and what is
possible.
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