{"product_id":"western-lane","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Booker Prize\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.","brand":"Chetna Maroo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43974898843875,"sku":"9780374607494","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780374607494-us.jpg?v=1693594511","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/western-lane","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}