The Lightness
English
By (author): Emily Temple
A psychologically smart debut that swathes teen desire and friendship in mystery and mirth Observer
Like a twisted Malory Towers or maybe a cosmic version of Heathers Daily Mail
Funny, whip-smart and transcendently wise Jenny Offill
The love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French Chloe Benjamin
One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure, Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center.
There, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, a Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls, and finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls determined that this is the summer they will finally learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness.
But as desire and danger intertwine, and Olivia comes ever closer to discovering what a body and a girl is capable of, it becomes increasingly clear that this is an advanced and perilous practice, and theres a chance not all of them will survive
A beautiful meditation on meditationpopulated with girls who refuse to act the way theyre expected to; who have too much passion, too many feelings and nowhere to put them New York Times
A disquieting and astute reflection on desire, truth, friendship and the siren call of weightlessness Daily Mail
A darkly funny, luminously drawn mystery Téa Obreht, author of Inland and The Tigers Wife
This remarkable novel is made up of equal parts desire and dread Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
A bold, smart, hilarious new voice. A classic must read! Mary Karr, author of Lit
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