The Lightness A Novel

Emily Temple

eBook - 2020

“A teen thriller in the vein of the ‘90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful.” —The New York Times Book Review One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother, Olivia retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their program for troubled teens and finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls. Led by the elusive and beautiful Serena, and her aloof, secretive acolytes, Janet and Laurel, the girls decide this is the summer they will fi...nally achieve enlightenment—and learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness. But as... more