{"product_id":"western-lane-2","title":"Western Lane","description":"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.","brand":"St Martins Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58574957478223,"sku":"9781250321930","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781250321930_1-western-lane.jpg?v=1787817753","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/western-lane-2","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}