5/29/2023 0 Comments Your heart is a muscle book![]() ![]() ![]() They were like, "Come see us in Prague, what's your problem?" And I said, "Of course!" But when I checked plane tickets from Athens to Prague, it said it would cost $1,500. There was this-I had two friends who were beautiful Czech women. There were moments when I probably should have taken a break a couple months in. That's what helped me write! I was there for four months. I fear I would descend into my own personal darkness. ![]() The book just came out in paperback, and he'll be talking about it with Mark Baumgarten of the Seattle Weekly at Third Place Books Seward Park on Friday. ![]() Yapa combines cinematic imagery with sentences that escalate and escalate until a paragraph break knocks them down like an officer's baton. Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is told from the point of view of several characters involved in the WTO protests during the Battle in Seattle in 1999-including a few beat cops, two activists, a police chief named Bishop, and his son, Victor, a young man who begins the novel trying to make a buck selling weed to the protesters and winds up caught up in their fervor. He left for college and world travel, but something about this city seems to have stuck with him, because it became the setting for his debut novel. On the weekends, he'd tool around the neighborhoods and camp in the Cascades. He spent his few years here mowing lawns for Magnolia Lawn Service, moved into a basement apartment in Wallingford in 1996, surviving on ramen noodles, Tom Robbins novels, and fine BC Kush. ![]()
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