One title on Somers's list of ten of 2016's cleverest novels with great premises, as shared at B & N Reads:Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, by Sunil YapaRead about the other entries on the list.
Set during the 1990 Seattle WTO protests, Yapa offers seven characters from both sides of the conflict, telling seven stories and weaving them together in a tense, deeply considered story that breaks hearts and offers insights into the modern world. This is one of those books whose elevator pitch—seven people’s lives intertwine during the protests—is both thrillingly simple and wonderfully deceptive, as the story is much more than the sum of its parts.
--Marshal Zeringue
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