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Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor sets out to sell as much marijuana as possible to 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 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.

Week of October 17, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of October 17th include THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS, in which Stephen King assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book, and introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it; DESTINY AND POWER, a biography of George Herbert Walker Bush from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, who paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times; and YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST, a debut novel by Sunil Yapa that 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.