Western Lane

Western Lane

Chetna Maroo

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE

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." —The 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 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.

Product details

ISBN-13: 9781039004030

Number of pages: 160

Format: Hardback

Imprint: Knopf Canada

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