Heart the size of a fist

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Victor, a year-old runaway burned out from caring too much, hopes to sell enough weed to protesters to buy himself a plane ticket. At the center of the novel is the same question posed by the protests themselves: What kind of world do we want, and what must we do to get it? The protests offer Yapa a unique intersection of answers, even if the attempt to shoehorn them all in can give the novel the feel of a crowded ensemble film, with everyone bumping into everyone else. Yapa looks honestly at the exhilaration such actions incite and the places where principled resolve meets the thrill of disobedience. One of the two cops was a responder to the Rodney King riots, the other in the Oklahoma City bombing. One of the medic-protesters has a violent past. Police Chief Bishop drove his son out of the house, only to have him turn up and, seemingly on a whim, join a group of nonviolent activists who have chained themselves together in an intersection.

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The match truck and sputtered. Victor tried again. He put match head to phosphate strip with the gentle pressure of one long finger and the thing sparked and caught and for the briefest of moments he held a yellow flame. Victor—curled into himself like a question mark, a joint hanging from his mouth; Victor with his hair natural in two thick braids, a red bandanna folded and knotted to hold them back; Victor—with his dark eyes and his thin shoulders and his cafecito con leche skin, wearing a pair of classic Air Jordans, the leather so white it glowed—imagine him how you will because he hardly knew how to see himself.