Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

This electrifying novel from an award-winning author follows a grieving father and son as they find themselves on opposite sides of a protest during an important moment in history.

Grief-stricken after his mothers death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes hes found both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in a massive protest. With young, biracial Victor on one side of the barricades and his estranged fatherthe white chief of policeon the opposite, the day descends into chaos, capturing in its confusion the activists, police, bystanders, and citizens from all around the world whod arrived that day brimming with hope. By the days end, they have all committed acts they never thought possible.

As heartbreaking as it is pulse-pounding, Yapas virtuosic debut asks profound questions about the power of empathy in our hyper-connected modern world, and the limits of compassion, all while exploring how far we must go for family, for justice, and for love.