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About The Lightness: A Novel
Product Description “A teen thriller in the vein of the ‘90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review "The Lightness could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French, but its savage, glittering magic is all Emily Temple’s own." —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists A Most Anticipated Novel by Entertainment Weekly • USA Today • Marie Claire • Elle • WSJ. Magazine • Glamour • Vulture • Bustle • Buzzfeed • The Millions • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star Tribune • The Daily Beast • Refinery 29 • Publishers Weekly • Literary Hub • Electric Literature • and more! A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, and the female body that shimmers with rage, wit, and fierce longing—an 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 mother—a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial—Olivia 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 “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls”. 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 enlightenment—and 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 there’s 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 people—even though you don’t, and can’t, know them at all. “A suspenseful debut.” –People Pick Amazon.com Review Not sure what kind of teenager you were, but I was definitely the brooding, rebellious type, not unlike the unreliable narrator in debut author Emily Temple’s The Lightness—a haunting, suspenseful, coming of age novel that explores the power dynamics and defiance of teenage girls teetering on the edge of self-destruction. When 15-year-old Olivia arrives at the Levitation Center—a self-described “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls” high in the Colorado mountains—she’s utterly alone and displaced after her father walked out of her life never to be seen again. She’s soon drawn into a dangerous circle of troubled teens and their ringleader, Serena, who longs for spiritual enlightenment at any cost. Together they fast on nettle tea, meditate at midnight, and choke each other into unconsciousness. But when their escalating dangerous practices fail to yield their intended results, they set their sights on a new obsession—Luke, the retreat center’s gardener—convinced that this is the summer he’s finally going to teach them how to levitate…or die trying. —Marlene Kelly Review “Emily Temple’s debut The Lightness grants us a bold, smart, hilarious new voice. She tells a page-turning story that’s also a detective story—psychologically wise and totally wiseassed, all while being both cynical and spiritual. A classic must read!” ( Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of Lit) “Emily
