18 of the Best Books for National Reading Month
Frisky fish, pensive poets, illicit lovers...and more
By Kseniya Melnik, Elliott Holt, Leigh Haber, Dotun Akintoye, Natalie Beach and Hamilton Cain
16 of 18
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
By Sunil Yapa
320 pages;
Lee Boudreaux Books
Seattle, 1999: 50,000 WTO demonstrators go on the march, sweeping up a boyish drug dealer, a policewoman, and a Sri Lankan dignitary you'll come to know, care for, and be powerless to rescue from the gears of history. An achingly compassionate fiction debut.
— Natalie Beach
Published 03/01/2016
