“Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist” A Powerful Narrative with Seven Voices
Sunil Yapa’s debut novel tells a fictionalized version of the events of the 1999 Seattle protests on the World Trade Organization. Told in alternating limited third-person, the novel follows seven very different characters that all experience the same day. Over the course of the novel, readers follow nineteen-year-old Victor (a black runaway), police chief Bishop (Victor’s white stepfather), King (a female twenty-something protestor), Officers
