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American Novel, American writer, Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Hernan Diaz -Ply

Hernan Diaz Ply review and information of the novel by the American author. Picador will publish the novel by Hernan Diaz, the writer from the United States, September 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Hernan Diaz Ply reviews and information

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  • “Ply is majestic… sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control.” (David Mitchell, author)
  • “Glints with wonder and knowledge and mystery.” (Rachel Kushner, author)
  • “Fascinating… unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable.” (Sunday Times)

Hernan Diaz Ply

Ply

  • Author: Hernan Diaz (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: September 24, 2026
  • Length: 464 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: € 24,99
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Blurb of the novel by Hernan Diaz

These are the last moments of the world as it’s always been known. Reality now begins anew.

The internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to America’s future with Ply.

Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher – someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market or, in her case, to power the underground music scene she adores. It is a high-risk life, and now she is being followed.

Soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question – all while following a thread leading to a groundbreaking experiment that, if she can source the electricity to power it, could change the fabric of reality itself.

Set in a future filled with both uncertainty and promise, Ply is a powerfully humane novel that interrogates the role of technology in a deeply changed society. Both an electrifying thriller and a profound novel of ideas, it offers a hopeful glimpse of a new world that may be growing out of the cracks and fissures we see all around us.

Hernan Diaz is born in 1973. He is an American-Argentine writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kirkus Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.

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Schotse roman, Schotland, Schotse schrijver

Douglas Stuart – John of John

Douglas Stuart John of John review and information the novel of the Scottish writer. Picador will publish the new novel by Douglas Stuart, on May 21, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The novel has been included on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. The Dutch translation of the novel, John, zoon van John is released May 5, 2026.

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Douglas Stuart John of John

John of John

  • Author: Douglas Stuart (Scotland)
  • Book type: novel
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: May 21, 2026
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize:
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2026
  • Order book from: Amazon 

Blurb of the new Douglas Stuart novel

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.

While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.

John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.

Douglas Stuart was born May 31, 1976 in Sighthill, Glasgow, Scotland. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain, his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both ‘Debut of the Year’ and ‘Book of the Year’ at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and his essay on gender, anxiety and class was published by Lit Hub.

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Canadese roman, Canadese schrijfster

Emily St. John Mandel – Exit Party

Emily St. John Mandel Exit Party review and information new novel by the writer from Canada. Picador will publish the Emily St. John Mandel novel on September 17, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Emily St. John Mandel Exit Party

Exit Party

  • Author: Emily St. John Mandel (Canada)
  • Book type: Canadian novel
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: September 17, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize:
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Emily St. John Mandel novel

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s new mind-bending epic: a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time.

2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party.

Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just as a fragile new era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn’t be there. Something is very wrong . . .

Years later, living a different life in Paris, Ari remains haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality – and may hold the key to a very different world.

Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel’s electrifying new novel about freedom and surveillance, art and survival, love and loss in a broken world.

Emily St. John Mandel was born in in 1979 in Merville, British Columbia, Canada. She studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her novels are Last Night in Montreal, The Singer’s Gun, The Lola Quartet, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

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Neil Shea – Frostlines

Neil Shea Frostlines review and information travel stories and book about an epic exploration of the transforming Arctic. Picador will publish the Neil Shea debut, on February 12, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Neil Shea Frostlines reviews

  • “Magnificent and moving . . . This stunning book—part travelogue, part history, part popular science—will give you a new appreciation for a place, and its people, and how they together are confronting the upheaval of the modern world.” (Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh paleontologist)
  • “From wolves and whales to weaponized borders, Neil Shea cinches a singular storyline across the Arctic cap of our rapidly changing planet, bearing witness to loss and conflict while holding tight to wonder and awe.” (Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again)

Neil Shea Frostlines

Frostlines

An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic

  • Author: Neal Shea (United States)
  • Book type: Arctic travel stories
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: February 12, 2026
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Neal Shea travel book about the Arctic

The Arctic was once a place seemingly frozen in time. Now, while the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the herds of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, and the hunting skill of an Inupiat elder, there is a new Arctic emerging.

National Geographic writer Neil Shea begins his journey with the wolves of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, and travels among the Indigenous Netsilingmiut and Tlicho peoples of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. In the Barren Lands, perched on an esker, he watches bears, or Big Men. In Alaska he tracks the patterns of caribou, now shifting after thousands of years of predictability, and in the European Arctic he explores the new Cold War that is rising between Russia, China, Europe, and the United States over who controls the pole, and who will reap its riches as the ice melts.

Frostlines is an expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of crisis, and a journey along the threshold of this stunning and sometimes frightening world. What Shea finds is not one Arctic but many – all linked by shattering cold, seasons of darkness, and pure, sparkling light.

Neil Shea is an American travel journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has written more than fifteen years for National Geographic, reporting around the world at the intersections of conflict, climate science and cultural change. He’s a co-creator of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast ‘Unfinished: Deep South’, and he also writes for film and television, scripted and documentary. Frostlines is his first book.

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Wales, Debuutroman, Welsh schrijver

Liam Higginson – The Hill in the Dark Grove

Liam Higginson The Hill in the Dark Grove review and information of the content of the first novel by the Welsh writer. Picador will publish the Liam Higginson debutnovel, on January 8, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Liam Higginson The Hill in the Dark Grove reviews

  • “Evocative, tender, terrifying … Superb.” (Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies)
  • “A hypnotic tale of twisted folklore that won’t let go.” (Scott Preston, author of The Borrowed Hills)
  • “Powerful, inventive and gripping to the very end” (Ian McGuire, author of The North Water)
  • “Liam Higginson is a new talent in Welsh storytelling; atmospheric, chilling and incredibly touching, The Hill in the Dark Grove holds the reader in its arms, and shows us how our stories, our objects and memories, are shaped and held by the land.” (Joshua Jones, author of Local Fires)
  • “Gracefully and lovingly rendered with the heft of folklore, land and history, The Hill in the Dark Grove evokes, in dazzling detail, the tribulations of everyday life and the grandeur of ancestry. Higginson takes us on a soul-stirring quest to unearth the past in order to anchor the present before it flitters away. A truly bewitching experience!” (Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio)

Liam Higginson The Hill in the Dark Grove

The Hill in the Dark Grove

  • Author: Liam Higginson (Wales)
  • Book type: Welsh novel
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: January 8, 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb over the Liam Higginson novel

Moving and chilling, The Hill in the Dark Grove is a story about a lost way of life and the terrifying lengths we go to to protect what we know.

Carwyn and Rhian – the last in a long line of sheep farmers – are living out a brutal year on their hillside farm, deep in the mountains of North Wales.

When Carwyn discovers a buried prehistoric ruin in one of the fields on their land, his curiosity quickly descends into obsession. His wife, Rhian, meanwhile, is confronted with the growing realization that the man with whom she shares her life and home is becoming a frightening stranger.

As the harsh winter closes in, Rhian finds herself alone with her increasingly unrecognizable husband, and the mountains, and the looming megalithic stones.

Liam Higginson was born and raised in rural North Wales and lives in Llandudno with his wife. The Hill in the Dark Grove is his debut novel.

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IJsland, Australische schrijfster, Memoir, Reisverhalen

Hannah Kent – Always Home, Always Homesick

Hannah Kent Always Home, Always Homesick review, recensie en informatie memoir en liefdesbrief aan IJsland. Op 6 november 2025 verschijnt bij Picador de memoir over IJsland, geschreven door de Australische schrijfster Hannah Kent. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Hannah Kent Always Home, Always Homesick review en recensie

  • “Immediate, intimate and never less than captivating.” (Guardian)

Hannah Kent Always Home, Always Homesick

Always Home, Always Homesick

A Love Letter to Iceland

  • Auteur: Hannah Kent (Australië)
  • Soort boek: IJsland memoir, reisverhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador
  • Verschijnt: 6 november 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over IJsland van Hannah Kent

From the bestselling author of Burial Rites comes an inspirational memoir about her travels in Iceland, an extraordinary country that has forged a nation of storytellers.

When she was seventeen years old, Hannah Kent travelled to Iceland from Australia. She’d never seen snow before, didn’t speak a word of Icelandic. All she knew was that she wanted to have an experience – to soak up something of the world.

Soon she found herself isolated in a remote part of Iceland in a dark winter. It was a gruelling experience, but she quickly fell in love with the country: with its brutally beautiful landscapes and with its people. On returning home, with images of Iceland’s towering glaciers and windswept tundras in her dreams, Hannah began to write.

Now, as a mother and a wife, she looks back to that extraordinary year in Iceland.

Hannah Kent was born in 1985 in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in the Adelaide Hills, as a bit of a solitary child who loved to Burial Rites Historical Iceland Novel from 2013 by Hannah Kent the Autralian author first editionread. After finishing school she attended a course in creative writing course at Flinders University and earned a PhD.  She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is the author of Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion and Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland.

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Antigua & Barbuda, Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, coming-of-age roman

Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review, recensie en informatie roman over Antigua uit 1985 van de op het eiland geboren schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek Annie John van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Jamaica Kincaid. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review en recensie

  • “What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.” (Ali Smith)
  • “An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer … thrilling.” (Susan Sontag)
  • “So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us … and that’s exactly the book’s strength, its wisdom, its truth.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl’s passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangeness.” (Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times)

Jamaica Kincaid Annie John

  • Annie John

    • Auteur: Jamaica Kincaid (Verenigde Staten)
    • Soort boek: coming of age-roman over Antigua uit 1985
    • Taal: Engels
    • Uitgever: Picador Collection
    • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
    • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
    • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
    • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

    Flaptekst van de roman van Jamaica Kincaid over Antigua

    A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.

    An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow.

    When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a ‘young lady’, ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary.

    Jamaica Kincaid was born on 25 May 1949  in St. John’s, Antigua, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s mother removed her from school at 16 to help support the family when her third and last brother was born, because her stepfather was ill and could no longer provide for the family. when Kincaid was 17, her mother sent her Annie John Jamaica Kincaid novel from 1985 first editionto Scarsdale, a wealthy suburb of New York City, to work as an au pair. refused to send money home and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later. Before she wrote her debut novel Annie John, she wrote short stories wich wehere published in magazines like Rolling Stone and The New Yorker and the new papers The New York Times. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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Beste Romans, Ierland, Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

John Banville – The Sea

John Banville The Sea review, recensie en informatie roman uit 2005 van de Ierse schrijver en winnaar van de Booker Prize. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver John Banville. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De zee is op dit moment alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar.

John Banville The Sea review en recensie

  • “You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I’ll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years.” (Rick Gekoski, The Times)
  • “A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation.” (Allan Massie, The Scotsman)
  • “A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel.” (Spectator)

John Banville The Sea

The Sea

  • Auteur: John Banville (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse roman uit 2005
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De zee
  • Winnaar Booker Prize 2005
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol 

Flaptekst van de roman uit 2005 van de Ierse schrijver John Banville

The Sea is John Banville’s remarkable, Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.

The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately. What happened next would haunt him for the rest of his years, and shape everything that was to follow.

John Banville was born on 8 December 1945 in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

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Engelse schrijfsters, Memoir

Jen Hadfield – Storm Pegs

Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs recensie, review en informatie memoir over de Shetlandeilanden. Op 11 juli 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Picadoor het boek van de op Shetland woonachtige Engelse schrijfster en dichteres Jen Hadfield. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs recensie en review

  • “Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.” (Katherine May)
  • “Storm Pegs is rich, attentive and beautifully written. Hadfield writes vividly about the tides, the Shaetlan language, and shows a great appreciation for the people and modern life of Shetland. This book has been my friend. I really loved it and I recommend it.” (Amy Liptrot)
  • “What a wonderful book. Jen Hadfield just has to turn her languaged gaze to the world and it fizzes to life on the page. One of the most intensely realised accounts of a place – and time in a place – I have read.” (Philip Marsden)

Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs

Storm Pegs

A Life Made in Shetland

  • Auteur: Jen Hadfield (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir, verhalen over de Shetlandeilanden
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador
  • Verschijnt: 11 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Shetland van Jen Hadfield

In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world.

On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more: a place teeming with life, where rare seabirds blow in on Atlantic gales, seals and dolphins visit its beaches, and wild folk festivals carry the residents through long, dark winters. She found a close-knit community, too, of neighbours always willing to lend a boat or build a creel, of women wild-swimming together in the star-spangled winter seas. Over seventeen years, as bright summer nights gave way to storm-lashed winters, she learned new ways to live.

In prose as rich and magical as Shetland itself, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local; introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.

Jen Hadfield (1978)  lives in Shetland. Her first collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second collection Nigh-No-Place won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. Her collection The Stone Age won the Highland Book Prize in 2022.

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roman over de Shetlandeilanden
Uitgever: De Arbeiderspers
Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024

Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Chetna Maroo – Western Lane

Chetna Maroo Western Lane recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit Engeland, shortlist Booker Prize 2023. Op 11 mei 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Picador de roman van de Engelse schrijfster Chetna Maroo. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Chetna Maroo Western Lane recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Western Lane. Het boek is geschreven door Chetna Maroo. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Engelse auteur Chetna Maroo.

Chetna Maroo Western Lane recensie

Western Lane

  • Auteur: Chetna Maroo (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Picador
  • Verschijnt: 11 mei 2023
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 25,95 / € 17,76
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Shortlist Booker Prize 2023

Flaptekst van de roman van Chetna Maroo

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.

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