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Western Lane : a novel.

by Maroo, Chetna.

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Knopf Canada, 2023.

Women squash players -- Fiction.

Child athletes -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Coming of age -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

9781039004030 (hc)

151 p. ; 20 cm.

"A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. 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."--Publisher.

Literary fiction.

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