{"product_id":"9781039004030","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cb\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn   indelible   coming-of-age   story,   Chetna   Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates  it  with  beauty.  \u003ci\u003eWestern  Lane\u003c\/i\u003e is  a  valentine  to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.","brand":"Chetna Maroo","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Hardback  |  2023-02-07","offer_id":44151421239551,"sku":"9781039004030","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f42ce3d4-7d7c-42bc-9e0e-32a78d1a1f2c.jpg?v=1700680540","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781039004030","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}