For fans of David Chariandy’s Brother, this gem-like novel announces a startling literary talent and packs an emotional punch through controlled prose and narrative precision. Western Lane is the story of Gopi, the youngest of three sisters who live with their father on the outskirts of London. Their mother has died; their father’s grief is palpable but unarticulated. Far away in Edinburgh their uncle and aunt worry and wait: unable to have children, the couple’s wish to take a niece into their ...