Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome debut novelist Sunil Yapa for a reading from his book, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 WTO protests. Column McCann calls it “a symphony of a novel…which finds, at its core, a deep and abiding regard for the music of what happens….Yapa strives forward with a literary molotov cocktail to light up the dark.” Bustle Magazine’s review says that this new novel “is possibly the most gorgeous book I’ve read in my entire life.”
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.