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This book was like a slow simmering pot... taking its time building and simmering the whole time you know it's going to boil over and all hell is going to break loose and it's going to rip you heart out.

Such a beautiful story about human nature and human experience. Each of the 7 people who's perspectives we get have something to lose in this story. And I really felt all of the perspectives help to really wrap me up in the experience of the story and of the protest.

I did my thesis in college on the media's coverage of protests, and it the WTO protests were a large part of my research. And it was interesting to see what I found in my research, mirrored in this book. To see the author use what the media highlighted verses what they did not to underline his point. You spend the whole book feeling something for every one of these characters and then you're struck with the knowledge that in the real life events of that day so many people were sitting by seeing it through the lens of the media machine and losing the stories of the protestors, or the cops, of the delegates.

Bottomline: This was beautiful, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and has left me with so much to think about.


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Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist Sunil Yapa 9780316386531 Books Reviews

I needed this for a college English class that I am taking so this wasn't a book that I really wanted to read but I went in with an opened mind. I honestly don't like it and was really hard to understand because it kinda reads like a poem. But I understand the message it's trying to give and I appreciate it. I don't feel like I will read this again but good job to the author for trying so hard to make this book.
This year I've decided to read one brand new novel every month through the year and I was lucky enough to pick Sunil Yapa's debut novel as my january novel. I'm new to Yapa but was quickly sucked into his fast paced, beautifully poetic and very cinematic writing. Some of the passages in this book is breathtakingly beatiful and packed with deep wisdom and knowledge of the human condition. I can totally understand that it's taken him almost a decade to finish this book because it really vibrates with perfection. I'll recommend it to anyone who wants to be moved by words in a book...and that's all I'll really care to say, writing this on my clunky little mobile device.
I wanted desperately to like this novel. Unfortunately, I could never get my bearings. The multi-person narrator mixed with the back-and-forth time jumping made the story disorienting and disjointed. I appreciate the value of each story that was told, but the author's attempt to weave them all together left me frustrated and dissatisfied. I believe the author has talent, but I regret that I didn't enjoy his debut work. I do, however, look forward to his future works when his voice is more refined and focused.
This is a powerful, hard-hitting novel centered around the 1999 WTO riot. Having lived through the historical event, I discovered that I really hadn't understood what it was all about. I remember seeing images on tv, showing people demonstrating and stopping the WTO from holding their meetings, and seeing police attacking the demonstrators. This multi-character novel takes you deeply into all angles of the demonstrations ... Victor a 19-year old kid who had left home at 16, who instead of selling his bag of weed to the protestors, finds himself in the front row of a group practicing nonviolent demonstration by linking themselves together in an intersection; Bishop, chief of police, widower, stepfather to Victor, a flawed man who runs the gamut from loving father, practical police officer, brutal and violent lawman; Dr. Charles Wickramsinghe, a delegate for Sri Lanka who is trying to gain admittance to the WTO for his county, only to find himself in the midst of protestors who attack him by mistake, abused and arrested by the police, and who becomes an observer and listener to why the protestors are there; and King, a young activist who is there in the role of medic to aid protestors as they are bombarded by smoke grenades, pepper spray and rubber bullets.

Slow to start, at first the writing seemed slightly overwrought, but suddenly it caught hold of me, and I couldn't put it down. The author shows humanity at it most beautiful and ugliest, but ultimately I was left with the idea that it is far better to care too much than to carelessly go through life not paying attention to the complex web of connections that bind all humanity together. As Chief Bishop says to his son, "Care too much and the world will kill you cold," but care too little and kill your soul.
THE HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST, Sunil Yapa’s debut novel, roars with energy and is a yawping celebration of language. The story takes place during a single day at the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999. The main character, Victor, is a bright, itinerant, bi-racial 19-year-old who left his Seattle home at age 16 after his mother died. He has traveled the world and seen the best and worst of what it contains. Now he finds himself back in Seattle—where his father happens to be chief of police—in the midst of the WTO protest. Through the eyes of several characters—protesters and police alike, and most notably Victor and his father—we are taken through the events of a day as the protest devolves into chaos and violence. What do we owe one another as individuals and nations, the story asks. How do we live a just life? The book reads like a glorious, if somewhat repetitive, rant, full of love and despair for the human condition. Yapa’s embrace of humanity reminds me of Walt Whitman, his deployment of language is reminiscent of the work of Colum McCann, Yapa’s teacher. I look forward to his next novel.
This book was like a slow simmering pot... taking its time building and simmering the whole time you know it's going to boil over and all hell is going to break loose and it's going to rip you heart out.

Such a beautiful story about human nature and human experience. Each of the 7 people who's perspectives we get have something to lose in this story. And I really felt all of the perspectives help to really wrap me up in the experience of the story and of the protest.

I did my thesis in college on the media's coverage of protests, and it the WTO protests were a large part of my research. And it was interesting to see what I found in my research, mirrored in this book. To see the author use what the media highlighted verses what they did not to underline his point. You spend the whole book feeling something for every one of these characters and then you're struck with the knowledge that in the real life events of that day so many people were sitting by seeing it through the lens of the media machine and losing the stories of the protestors, or the cops, of the delegates.

Bottomline This was beautiful, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and has left me with so much to think about.