![]() ![]() ![]() ' We are mad with hope' the narrator says early on, and by the end the reader is too."- Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist will compel you to look and then to witness. "An open-armed love letter to humanity, this glorious novel loops around a burning center encompassing the warmth of parents and the coolness of patriarchy. This book is delightfully, forcefully alive, and I feel more alive for having read it."- Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints "There is nothing to say about Sunil Yapa's debut novel that its wonderful title doesn't already promise-its heart beats and bleeds on every page, in prose so raw it feels built of muscle and tissue and sinew and sweat. This novel marshals all the vital forces of our existence-from the domestic to the political-and offers them to the reader with equal doses of compassion and beauty."- Dinaw Mengestu, author of All Our Names "Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is a stunningly orchestrated, symphonic work of narrative power. ![]() Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek Sunil Yapa has achieved something special, a story that is as tragic as it is relevant, as unflinching as it is humane." But above all, this book is a full-throated chorus of voices on all sides-protestors, cops, delegates, politicians, and ramblers-as democracy runs headlong into the machinery of global power. "Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is visceral, horrifying, and often heroic. ![]()
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