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Western Lane / Chetna Maroo.
In this enthralling debut novel, 11-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 brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. But on the court, she is with her pa. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe. 'Western Lane' is about grief, sisterhood, the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other, and the force of obsession and its consequences.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781039004030 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 151 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Mothers > Death > Fiction. Squash (Game) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Maroo | 31681010308872 | FICTION | Available | - |
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ⢠A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ⢠A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.
"Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court."Â âThe Times
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.
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.
An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Marooâs 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.
