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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Another Best NewFiction Book of the Week PickBy Vickie I. FangSunil Yapa, theauthor of this debut novel, studied under both Peter Carey andColum McCann, and itrsquo;s hard not to see the effects of a firstrate MFA education. The Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fistemploys all the conventions of contemporary literature mdash;multiple points of view, exquisite descriptions, extensive use ofsetting to show character, little in the way of plot but much inthe way of digression mdash; but it explodes the aura of cynical,somewhat lifeless reserve that so often accompanies studentfiction. It is, instead, a work of tremendous, almost breathless,immediacy, or, as McCann puts, "it's a literary Molotovcocktail."The book takes place in Seattle on a single day in 1999when the World Trade Organization came to town to hold itsMinisterial Conference. Massive street protests ensued, withprotesters targeting the intersections near the conference centerwhere the delegates planned to meet. As a result of the protests,the conference was postponed until the next day, more than a 150people were arrested without probable cause, police overtime andvandalism of nearby buildings cost the city millions of dollars,and the term "anti-globalization" became part of the publicdialogue. However, despite the impact of the protests and thecomplexity of the political and economic issues, The Heart is aMuscle the Size of Your Fist begins and ends with Victor, a youngstreet person who gets caught up in the demonstrations while tryingto sell some weed.Yapa is concerned with emotions, passionate ones,rather than ideology, and with Victor, he gives us a portrait of ayoung man who leaps at the chance to belong to a movement. Victorlongs to be one with the poor and dispossessed of the earth. As achild, he had helped his mother volunteer in a soup line, and as anadult he remembers, "the way the men were grateful for the hot foodyet accepted it only as one might pass a plate down a family table.God bless the beautiful necessities of food and flesh. . . .Whenthat is taken from you, there can be no giving it back."AlthoughVictor comes from a middle class background -- in fact, he is thebitterly estranged son of the police chief -- his great desire toidentify with the poor is no affectation. It is love, painful,intense, and almost entirely fruitless. It is also something hisfather had warned him against. "Son, have you ever asked yourselfwhy Buddhist monasteries are built in remote mountains with wallsthirty feet high? Love and compassion for the entire world, sixbillion selfish souls, Victor. Are you man enough?"In a lesserauthor's hands, the father son clash, which is central to thenovel, would quickly become a trite struggle between two cliches;ignorant but idealistic youth against wiser but sadder middle age.Instead Victor and his father are both men who have an inchoateimage of the world they want, a need to reconcile with each other,and little else but anger or fear. They struggle blindly infigurative and sometimes literal darkness. When Victor's fatherlearns that Victor has returned to Seattle, he has a patrolman takehim to the homeless camp beneath a bridge where Victor lives. He isfrightened and appalled by what he sees.The blue tarps hung withclothesline, the crappy tents huddled in the grit with the trucks aconstant pounding overhead like a galloping migraine. The carsgreen-bodied flies that whirred and buzzed above their heads. Theconcrete hollows lit by firelight and the blue hissing of thecookstoves. The low murmur of voices which disappeared beneath thesound of the nearby waves smashing against the seawall. He wasfrightened, and of course he said nothing, did not show this, howhe was suddenly frightened of the dark, this dark, frightened bywhat might be out there and frighted by the depth of the world andall he did not know. His son lived down here?Victor, inself-imposed "lock down" with his new friends, is so frightenedthat he can't even bring himself to steady his nerves withchanting. The other protesters struggle with their own fear andwith their memories of past failures, and the police, who reactwith startling brutality, are haunted by a different set ofnightmares. This is how one officer remembers his own father, whohad been kept in a hole when he was a prisoner of war inVietnam.His voice stretched thin as if traveling a wire whichoriginated from the dampness of that dark hole and terminatedsomewhere in his trembling brain stem. Gooks, his voice so torturedand weird. Weird -- that was the word because in moments like thisit was as if his father were not his father, but would alwaysremain that man alone in a hole looking for a bug to eat.Theintensity of this book can make the reader feel like he's down in ahole of some sort with these characters, and Yapa wisely gives usDr. Charles Wickramsinghe, the disciplined and persevering delegatefrom Sri Lanka. Wickramsinghe, who is on a mission to keeping hiscountry from "starving on the doorsteps" of the first world nation,has worked relentlessly to get Sri Lanka into the WTO that theprotesters are trying to disband. He is less than pleased when hefinds a mob of young Americans blocking him from the meeting.Thisis what made it so American -- not that they felt compassion formistreated workers three continents away, workers they had neverseen or known, whose world they could not begin to understand, notthat they felt guilty about their privilege, no, not that either,but that they felt the need to do something about it. That theyfelt they had the power to do something about it. That was whatmade it so American.He felt a sudden, queasy sadness. What if theyknew what a real revolutionary was?Well, they don't know. Not evenDr. Wickramsinghe, with all his experience and intelligence reallyunderstands his place in the world. Still, everybody in this bookwants something, wants passionately to do the right thing, to be ahelper in a troubled world, to stop feeling afraid. They keeptrying; the book ends with a powerful vision of love. It's a deeplymoving work.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.Poetic and cinematicBy Trond BergerThis year I've decided to readone brand new novel every month through the year and I was luckyenough to pick Sunil Yapa's debut novel as my january novel. I'mnew to Yapa but was quickly sucked into his fast paced, beautifullypoetic and very cinematic writing. Some of the passages in thisbook is breathtakingly beatiful and packed with deep wisdom andknowledge of the human condition. I can totally understand thatit's taken him almost a decade to finish this book because itreally vibrates with perfection. I'll recommend it to anyone whowants to be moved by words in a book...and that's all I'll reallycare to say, writing this on my clunky little mobile device.0 of 0people found the following review helpful. ROARING WITH ENERGYByCaroline EmmonsTHE HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST, SunilYaparsquo;s debut novel, roars with energy and is a yawpingcelebration of language. The story takes place during a single dayat the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999. The main character, Victor,is a bright, itinerant, bi-racial 19-year-old who left his Seattlehome at age 16 after his mother died. He has traveled the world andseen the best and worst of what it contains. Now he finds himselfback in Seattlemdash;where his father happens to be chief ofpolicemdash;in the midst of the WTO protest. Through the eyes ofseveral charactersmdash;protesters and police alike, and mostnotably Victor and his fathermdash;we are taken through the eventsof a day as the protest devolves into chaos and violence. What dowe owe one another as individuals and nations, the story asks. Howdo we live a just life? The book reads like a glorious, if somewhatrepetitive, rant, full of love and despair for the human condition.Yaparsquo;s embrace of humanity reminds me of Walt Whitman, hisdeployment of language is reminiscent of the work of Colum McCann,Yaparsquo;s teacher. I look forward to his next novel.

A Finalist for the PEN/ Faulkner Awardn Amazon Best Book of theYear A Washington Post Notable Book A Barnes Noble Discover PickOne of Bustle's "Most Important Books of 2016" Named MostAnticipated Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, EntertainmentWeekly, TIME, Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed,Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Orlando Sentinel,Ploughshares, Bustle, TheMillions, BookRiot, The Oregonian, The SanDiego Union-Tribune, River City Reading, IndigoGrief-stricken afterhis mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victoris longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he'sfound both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in amassive protest. With young, biracial Victor o one side of thebarricades and his estranged father--the white chief of police--onthe opposite, the day descends into chaos, capturing in itsconfusion the activists, police, bystanders, and citizens from allaround the world who'd arrived that day brimming with hope. By theday's end, they have all committed acts they never thoughtpossible. As heartbreaking as it is pulse-pounding, Yapa'svirtuosic debut asks profound questions about the power of empathyin our hyper-connected modern world, and the limits of compassion,all while exploring how far we must go for family, for justice, andfor love.

.com An Best Book of January 2016: Coursing with energy, SunilYaparsquo;s Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is a rocketship of a book, filled with heroics, violence and the propulsiveaction of a heart. Over the course of a day, Yapa spools anarrative of the now infamous World Trade Organization proteststhat took place along the streets of Seattle in 1990--a day thatstarted peacefully and ended in blood. Yaparsquo;s world introducesyou to a kaleidoscope of characters and each is raw, real, drivenby their own obligation and role in the protestsmdash;from theChief of Police whose city it is to protect, to an ardentnon-violent activist, to a delegate making his way to an importantmeeting in the hopes of transforming his country. This epic dayunravels from every vantage point, and the result is a storyempowered with exacting empathy. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size ofa Fist is vivid, visceral, sly, and charged with action. You willrace through it with a beating heart. --Al Woodworth "A fantasticdebut novel.... What is so enthralling about this novel is itssyncopated riff of empathy as the perspective jumps around theseparticipants--some peaceful, some violent, some determined, someincredulous... Yapa creates a fluid sense of the riot as it washesover the city. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist ultimatelydoes for WTO protests what Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night didfor the 1967 March on the Pentagon, gathering that confrontation incompeting visions of what happened and what it meant."--RonCharles, Washington Post"A symphony of a novel. Sunil Yapa inhabitsthe skins of characters vastly different to himself: a riot cop inSeattle, a punk activist, a disillusioned world traveler and ahigh-level diplomat, among others. Through it all Yapa showcases araw and rare talent. This is a protest novel which finds, at itscore, a deep and abiding regard for the music of what happens. Inthe contemporary tradition of Aleksandar Hemon and Phillipp Meyer,with echoes of Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy, Yapa strivesforward with a literary molotov cocktail to light up thedark."--Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winner Letthe Great World Spin"Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist isvisceral, horrifying, and often heroic. But above all, this book isa full-throated chorus of voices on all sides--protestors, cops,delegates, politicians, and ramblers--as democracy runs headlonginto the machinery of global power. Sunil Yapa has achievedsomething special, a story that is as tragic as it is relevant, asunflinching as it is humane."―Smith Henderson,author of Fourth of July Creek"Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of aFist is a stunningly orchestrated, symphonic work of narrativepower. This novel marshals all the vital forces of ourexistence--from the domestic to the political--and offers them tothe reader with equal doses of compassion andbeauty."―Dinaw Mengestu, author of All OurNames"There is nothing to say about Sunil Yapa's debut novel thatits wonderful title doesn't already promise--its heart beats andbleeds on every page, in prose so raw it feels built of muscle andtissue and sinew and sweat. This book is delightfully, forcefullyalive, and I feel more alive for having readit."―Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten ThousandSaints"An open-armed love letter to humanity, this glorious novelloops around a burning center encompassing the warmth of parentsand the coolness of patriarchy. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size ofa Fist will compel you to look and then to witness. 'We are madwith hope' the narrator says early on, and by the end the reader istoo."―Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Loveand Drowning"Sunil Yapa's debut novel is possibly the most gorgeousbook I've read in my entire life... Yapa's pattern of meandering,artful, full-bodied imagery, punctuated by zingy one-liners makesfor a seriously addictive read... It's painful. It's gorgeous. Ican't say this enough: read it."―BustleMagazine"A vital, powerful read, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size ofa Fist is an absorbing, multi-faceted, acutely hopefulnovel."―Patrick deWitt, author of UndermajordomoMinor and The Sisters Brothers"A great wrenching beautifulbook."―Laline Paull, author of TheBees"Chilling...A memorable, pulse-pounding literaryexperience."―Publisher's Weekly"[A] grippingdebut...Yapa is a skilled storyteller, revealing just enough abouthis characters and the direction of his plot to engage his readers,yet effectively building dramatic impact by withholding certain keydetails. In the style of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin,Yapa ties together seemingly disparate characters and narrativesthrough a charged moment in history, showing how it still affectsus all in different ways."―Booklist"Yapa'swriting is visceral and unsparing. Noteworthy, capital-I Importantand a ripping read, his novel will be on many "best" lists in2016."―Library Journal (starred review)"In thisbeautifully written, kaleidoscopically shifting novel.... Yapapenetrates to the human connections and disconnections at playbetween the lines of history in the era of the globalvillage."―ChicagoTribune"Explosive."―Entertainment Weekly"Ifyou're looking for a novel that moves with heat this winter, lookno further."―Flavorwire"The energy and sheerhumanity of Sunil Yapa's debut will grab you, wrap you in, andwon't let you go-and that's just the start of why you're going tolove this. Seven characters narrate this charged book, whichcenters on a protest. It's so layered, you'll finish this wonderinghow Yapa pulled off what he did."―Bustle"It's notoften that a novel takes a fraught event from the recent past, onethat most of us only experienced in the flash of the cable newscycle or the static of print headlines, and imbues it with so muchheart and soul that we do something we almost never do in theconstant crush forward and faster-we pause and reconsider. That isthe power of literature. Sunil Yapa's Your Heart is a Muscle theSize of a Fist does just this for the momentous protests of the1999 World Trade Organization's (WTO).... Yapa does a heroic job ofjourneying into the heart of this complex set of events,illustrating how they grow out of and impact the character's lives.And while the heart may be the size of a fist, here itparadoxically seems to encompass the whole world and all of itscitizens, who pulse with its every beat."―TheRumpus"[A] gripping, profoundly humane first novel.... Anabsolutely compelling read."―Bookpage"Yapa'snovel is a much-needed and refreshing pivot point. His novel makesa case for the validity of all opinions in a conflict the betterpart of two decades old. This rare quality of his work is apractice that many could benefit from in current conflicts, foreignand domestic."―Denver Post"Sunil Yapa's voice andambition leap off the page. Here is a writer towatch."―Minneapolis Star Tribune"This furiouslypaced and contrapuntal literary tour-de-force makes use of multiplevantage points and benefits from a remarkably empathic sensibilityon the part of its author.... With Yapa burrowing into the heartsof these characters, each distinct yet sufferers all, his alreadyweighty story attains a level ofprofundity."―Miami Herald"Like magic, Yapa usesthis handful of perspectives to create snapshots that allow thereader to imagine who else was there that day and what they weredoing, thinking, and feeling...I can't imagine a better book tohave kicked off my year inreading."―Bookriot"Fast-paced and unflinching....As these characters encounter one another in a fog of tear gas andpepper spray, Yapa vividly evokes rage and compassion. Underlyingthe novel, and at once reinforced and rejected, is the chief'smantra: "Care too much and the world will kill youcold."―Dallas Morning News"Yapa's melding of factand fiction, human frailty and geopolitics, is a genuinetour-de-force, and an exciting literarydebut."―Seattle Times"Fast-paced andunflinching.... As these characters encounter one another in a fogof tear gas and pepper spray, Yapa vividly evokes rage andcompassion. Underlying the novel, and at once reinforced andrejected, is the chief's mantra: "Care too much and the world willkill you cold."―New Yorker"A beautifully writtenbook."―Entertainment Weekly"An achinglycompassionate fiction debut."―O Magazine"Aselectric a novel as I've ever read."―BenjaminPercy, EsquireAbout the AuthorSunil Yapa holds a bachelor's degreein economic geography from Penn State University and an MFA fromHunter College. The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and motherfrom Montana, Yapa has lived around the world, including time inGreece, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, China, and India, as well asLondon, Montreal, and New York City.

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