Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. 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.
Author: Chetna MarooPublisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/21/2023
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781250321930
ISBN10: 125032193X
BISAC Categories:-
Fiction |
Literary-
Fiction |
Family Life | Siblings-
Fiction |
Sports
