{"product_id":"western-lane-hc","title":"Western Lane HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWomen's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, NPR, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWestern Lane\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52553132867815,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/31TWYfcZ5fL.webp?v=1788297173","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/western-lane-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}