They wanted to tear down the borders, to make a leap into a kind of love that would be like living inside a new human skin.
This is how John Henryone of seven narrators in this novel about the 1999 World Trade Organization protestsdescribes his fellow demonstrators.
Whether your eyes tear up or roll upon reading that sentence will determine whether you love or hate Yapas debut, which is told by cops, activists, and a Sri Lankan delegate who were there in Seattle when peaceful dissent gave way to violence.
If you could tame your cynicism about the characters, its a propulsive street-level view of what happenedand, in my earnest, emo opinion, a beautifully written book.B+
