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Western Lane: A Novel by Chetna Maroo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Western Lane: A Novel about?
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian , NPR, and Kirkus 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.
Who reads Western Lane: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Chetna Maroo
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374607500
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (123 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14