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Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
By Sunil Yapa
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