Description
ISBN-13: | 9781250321930 |
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Publisher: | Picador |
Publication date: | 11/21/2023 |
Pages: | 160 |
Sales rank: | 60,267 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.50(d) |
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and KirkusA 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.
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