{"product_id":"9781039004054","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction • A\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNotable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e• A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Chetna Maroo","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada (Vintage Canada) | Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) | 08-06-2024","offer_id":44663151395071,"sku":"9781039004054","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/9781039004054_tnmd.jpg?v=1716225040","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781039004054","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}