Overview
āA teen thriller in the vein of the ā90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful throughout.āĀ Ā āThe New York Times Book Review
"The LightnessĀ could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French, but its savage, glittering magic is all Emily Templeās own."Ā āChloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The ImmortalistsĀ
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A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, and the female body that shimmers with rage, wit, and fierce longingāan audacious, darkly observant, and mordantly funny literary debut for fans of Emma Cline, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Jenny Offill.
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 and to escape her overbearing motherāa woman as grounded as her father is mercurialāOlivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center.
Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as āBuddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girlsā. Soon, she finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls determined to transcend their circumstances, by any means necessary. Led by the elusive and beautiful Serena, and her aloof, secretive acolytes, Janet and Laurel, the girls decide this is the summer they will finally achieve enlightenmentāand learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness.Ā
But as desire and danger intertwine, and Olivia comes ever closer to discovering what a bodyāand a girlāis capable of, it becomes increasingly clear that this is an advanced and perilous practice, and thereās a chance not all of them will survive. Set over the course of one fateful summer that unfolds like a fever dream, The Lightness juxtaposes fairy tales with quantum physics, cognitive science with religious fervor, and the passions and obsessions of youth with all of these, to explore concepts as complex as faith and as simple as loving peopleāeven though you donāt, and canāt, know them at all.
āA suspenseful debut.ā āPeople Pick
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