Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316386555)

This electrifying novel from an award-winning author follows a grieving father and son as they find themselves on opposite sides of a protest during an important moment in history.

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.

Author: Sunil Yapa
ISBN-10: 0316386553
ISBN-13: 9780316386555
Publisher: Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2016
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Finalist