{"product_id":"western-lane-a-novel-1","title":"Western Lane: A Novel","description":"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize\nLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction\nA New York Times Notable Book of the Year\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus\n\nA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself.\n\nEleven-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.\n\nBut 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.\n\nAn 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374607494\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0374607494.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Maroo, Chetna\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights, but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45587987464389,"sku":"LFV.0374607494.G","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0374607494-0_380aa03f-9d38-4106-8447-b2a4ce277aac.jpg?v=1767647027","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/western-lane-a-novel-1","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}