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Chetna Maroo

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Chetna Maroo


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Chetna Maroo lives in London, UK. Her stories have been published in the Paris Review, the Stinging Fly and the Dublin Review and she was the recipient of the 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction. Western Lane is her first novel.

Average rating: 3.51 · 8,560 ratings · 1,314 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
Western Lane

3.50 avg rating — 8,539 ratings — published 2023 — 29 editions
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“Khush said, “Aunt Ranjan’s afraid of us because she doesn’t know how
to find out what we’re thinking.”
Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

“He said this, but with his eyes and his body – his shoulders, his throat, the white bones visible under his skin – he was telling us that in one day we had exposed him, left him behind, left him wide open to whatever was coming for him.”
Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

“While Ma was alive, whenever we did something we weren’t supposed to, our relatives would bring Ma’s feelings into it, as if she was easy to hurt. But she wasn’t. It didn’t matter now. Now she was gone, our capacity to hurt her seemed infinite.”
Chetna Maroo, Western Lane

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