{"product_id":"western-lane-book-chetna-maroo-9781250321930","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWomen's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An 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 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.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.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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50297915343121,"sku":"CIN125032193XG","price":5.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50985803350289,"sku":"NIN9781250321930","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51845992808721,"sku":"CIN125032193XA","price":5.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106167157009,"sku":"CIN125032193XVG","price":5.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52842911629585,"sku":"GOR014637365","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/125032193X.jpg?v=1751239510","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/western-lane-book-chetna-maroo-9781250321930","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}