This taut, enthralling debut about grief, sisterhood, and a young squash player's struggle to transcend herself is both a valentine and an elegy for innocence.
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“Gopi’s retrospective narration accumulates slow layers of heartbreak as the story proceeds, patiently building up an entire landscape of emotion through gestures, silences, and overheard murmurings in the dark.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A rich correspondence between the rituals of grief and competition.”
— Wall Street Journal“A poignant illustration of the power of sports to help a family deal with grief―and each other―as they gradually make their way out of the darkness.”
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Chetna Maroo is an award-winning author of both long and short fiction. Her short stories that have been published in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines, including the Paris Review and the Dublin Review, and she is the recipient of the 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction.