The Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

What I liked most about this book is its title. It is the perfect title to this book about conflict borne out of love. Conflict because of a desire for making things better. This book mostly deals with the non-violent protesters at the Seattle WTO meetings in 1999 and the police who dealt with them. It’s as lopsided a portrayal as the news coverage was of it back then, only skewed this time in favor of the protesters. The characters just didn’t seem to be believeable though and so despite the research and good intentions, I had a hard time buying the whole thing. Although Yapa includes some of her resources in the back, I wish she would have given a quick summary of her findings. My quick internet search did not reveal quite the same amount of brutality she documents. And I wanted to know what “facts” which true and which were imagined. Unfortunately, despite the feeling that this should be an Important book, I found it somewhat forgettable—which is why I am only just now blogging about it.

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