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A review by snowbenton
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
challenging
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
To paraphrase Yapa, how do you live in the world the way it is? Published in 2016 and set in 1999 and read by me at the dying end of 2023, not one second of this book is surprising because we as a global society and we as an American society have learned nothing.
"How could a human life, a thing so layered and vast it was a world unto itself, be reduced so quickly and completely to a cold corpse beneath the trees?"
And there is what I think Yapa's answer is. Love. You survive this world by loving as big and as hard as you possibly can.
I would also answer love, with an asterisk that if you didn't believe all cops were bastards before reading this novel, you probably will after.
"How could a human life, a thing so layered and vast it was a world unto itself, be reduced so quickly and completely to a cold corpse beneath the trees?"
And there is what I think Yapa's answer is. Love. You survive this world by loving as big and as hard as you possibly can.
I would also answer love, with an asterisk that if you didn't believe all cops were bastards before reading this novel, you probably will after.