Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Set during the 1999 Seattle protests, this debut novel follows Victor, a homeless young man estranged from his father, the city's police chief, as both find themselves caught on opposite sides of one of the largest demonstrations in Western history. When the situation spirals into chaos and violence, the personal and political collide in devastating ways. Sunil Yapa's intense narrative explores what happens when a family is torn apart by the very events unfolding in the streets around them.