Western Lane

Author:	Maroo, Chetna
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9780374607494
Publisher:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Language:	English
Page Count:	152
Publication Date:	2/7/2023
Size:	7.78" l x 5.28" w x 0.92"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Family Life
Fiction	Coming of Age
Fiction	Literary

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.

But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.

An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo's first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.