Format:
Book
Author:
Yapa, Sunil, author.
Title:
Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist : a novel / Sunil Yapa.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Description:
306 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor--a nomadic, scrappy teenager who's run away from home--sets out to join the throng of WTO demonstrators determined to shut down the city. With the proceeds, he plans to buy a plane ticket and leave Seattle forever, but it quickly becomes clear that the history-making 50,000 anti-globalization protestors--from anarchists to environmentalists to teamsters--are testing the patience of the police, and what started out as a peaceful protest is threatening to erupt into violence. Over the course of one life-altering afternoon, the fates of seven people will change forever: foremost among them police Chief Bishop, the estranged father Victor hasn't seen in three years, two protesters struggling to stay true to their non-violent principles as the day descends into chaos, two police officers in the street, and the coolly elegant financial minister from Sri Lanka whose life, as well as his country's fate, hinges on getting through the angry crowd, out of jail, and to his meeting with the President of the United States. When Chief Bishop reluctantly unleashes tear gas on the unsuspecting crowd, it seems his hopes for reconciliation with his son, as well as the future of his city, are in serious peril.
Subjects:
World Trade Organization -- Protest movements -- Fiction.
World Trade Organization.
Anti-globalization movement -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Anti-globalization movement.
Fathers and sons.
Protest movements.
Washington (State) -- Seattle.
Genre:
Fiction.
Fiction.
Notes:
"A Lee Boudreaux book."
LCCN:
2015935822
ISBN:
0316386537
9780316386531
140870739X
9781408707395
Other Number:
908701116
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
95384
Call Number:
F YAP
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1