{"product_id":"western-lane-by-chetna-maroo","title":"Western Lane by Chetna Maroo","description":"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. The International Bestseller. A beautiful and moving novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' - The TimesEleven-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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHer 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn 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. 'WOW.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWestern Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger'Feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it' - The Guardian\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038157459732,"sku":"jek1789772270949","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/western-lane-by-chetna-maroo_1.jpg?v=1789772275","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/western-lane-by-chetna-maroo","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}