{"product_id":"western-lane-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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChetna Maroo\u003c\/b\u003e lives in London. Her stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dublin Review. S\u003c\/i\u003ehe was the recipient of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review'\u003c\/i\u003es 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591494111506,"sku":"9781250321930","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4dde05d-3a76-4e63-863a-51fc60f743dd.jpg?v=1774449699","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/western-lane-9781250321930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}