· Emily Temple’s The Lightness follows four teenage girls at a Buddhist levitation camp. The goal, at least for these four girls, is levitation. They want to levitate by the end of summer camp and the reader wants them to levitate by the end of the book. Seemingly simple www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. 6 rows · · The Lightness addresses power dynamics, female friendships, and bodies in a coming-of-age tale. Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. An Amazon Best Book of June 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 year-old Olivia arrives at 4/5().
Emily Temple's debut novel, The Lightness, is the most recent entry into this dark academia canon. The protagonist, sixteen year old Olivia, runs away from home after the dissolution of her parents' marriage and her father's disappearance a year prior, to the last place her father visited: a levitation center high up in the mountains. The Lightness is a book I didn't know I needed and now can't stop thinking about: swift, surprising, and utterly captivating." (Téa Obreht, author of Inland and The Tiger's Wife) "Emily Temple's sentences are extraordinary: musical, bristling with animal intelligence, feline in their tensed sinuosity, their lack of the usual loyalties. Emily Temple's The Lightness follows four teenage girls at a Buddhist levitation camp. The goal, at least for these four girls, is levitation. They want to levitate by the end of summer camp and the reader wants them to levitate by the end of the book. Seemingly simple objectives.
The Lightness by Emily Temple is a beautifully written book. The prose is intelligent, witty, gripping, and will challenge you to think about female relationships, how we relate to our parents, and how we carry trauma from our adolescence with us into our adult lives. This isn't a "breezy beach read," as some reviewers commented on. The Lightness is a glorious debut."--Garth Greenwell, award-winning author of What Belongs to You "Emily Temple has woven a darkly funny, luminously drawn mystery that hits bullseye after bullseye of language and emotion. The Lightness is a book I didn't know I needed and now can't stop thinking about: swift, surprising, and utterly captivating." Emily Temple’s debut novel The Lightness, which was released last June, is similarly interested in the complications of weight and weightlessness. The book follows Olivia, a girl who leaves home for a summer program at the same Buddhist retreat from which her father went missing the year before.
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