Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist : a novel / Sunil Yapa.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 312 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0316386537
- 9780316386531
- 140870739X
- 9781408707395
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Main Library | Fiction | Yapa, Sunil | Available | 33111008350155 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in a massive protest. With young, biracial Victor on one side of the barricades and his estranged father -- the white chief of police -- on the opposite, the day descends into chaos, capturing in its confusion the activists, police, bystanders, and citizens from all around the world who'd arrived that day brimming with hope. By the day's end, they have all committed acts they never thought possible.
As heartbreaking as it is pulse-pounding, Yapa's virtuosic debut asks profound questions about the power of empathy in our hyper-connected modern world, and the limits of compassion, all while exploring how far we must go for family, for justice, and for love.
"A Lee Boudreaux book."
Follows seven different people, including a marijuana dealer and his estranged police chief father, who have their lives altered one afternoon in Seattle during the WTO protests that tried to shut the city down in 1999.