Western Lane by Chetna Maroo Groundswell Speaker 2024 To protect the purity of

To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything: nowhere but home and school

move away and forget

Wherever she's lived around the world

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Western Lane by Chetna Maroo Groundswell Speaker 2024 To protect the purity ofA deeply moving novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl'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