Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (24 page)
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Authors: Sunil Yapa
Unusual stories. Unexpected voices. An immersive sense of place. Lee Boudreaux Books publishes both award-winning authors and writers making their literary debut. A carefully curated mix, these books share an underlying DNA: a mastery of language, commanding narrative momentum, and a knack for leaving us astonished, delighted, disturbed, and powerfully affected, sometimes all at once.
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist:
The sheer energy and vividness of Sunil Yapa's
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
hit me with tremendous force the moment I began reading. Start with the setting: an incipient riot, fifty thousand demonstrators, a fraction as many police, a man on a mission, a ticking clock. Then the characters: seven remarkable creations so emotionally resonant you will ache for them like you're reading about members of your own family. And finallyâmost cruciallyâthe language: urgent, dynamic, inventive, surprising, unforgettable. Yapa's stunning novel possesses so many of the hallmarks of the fiction I love and yet is vibrantly, vividly its own.
Over the course of her career, Lee Boudreaux has published a diverse list of titles, including Ben Fountain's
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,
Smith Henderson's
Fourth of July Creek,
Madeline Miller's
The Song of Achilles,
Ron Rash's
Serena,
Jennifer Senior's
All Joy and No Fun,
Curtis Sittenfeld's
Prep,
and David Wroblewski's
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,
among many others.
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2016 by Sunil Yapa
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