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A review by leemac027
The Lightness by Emily Temple
4.0
Emily Temple has a way with language - her use of words is at times mystical but also edgy. I enjoyed how she constructed this story.
Olivia, a young and impressionable girl, does not understand why her father left. He went to a meditation centre and just did not come back. Olivia's mother had a visceral reaction to his departure but Olivia took a different approach.
She enrolled into a program at the same Centre - the last place she knew her father was. Olivia meets other girls in the program but ends up embedded with a group that are searching, but for what? Serena, a big personality who can dominate at will, decides that learning to levitate is the way to enlightenment.
And so they proceed - Olivia, Serena, Janet and Laurel - to seek their enlightenment. But there is one complication - there is Luke - and he becomes entwined with the girls but in different ways - was this his intention or was he led?
Who will survive this program?
A compelling read.
Olivia, a young and impressionable girl, does not understand why her father left. He went to a meditation centre and just did not come back. Olivia's mother had a visceral reaction to his departure but Olivia took a different approach.
She enrolled into a program at the same Centre - the last place she knew her father was. Olivia meets other girls in the program but ends up embedded with a group that are searching, but for what? Serena, a big personality who can dominate at will, decides that learning to levitate is the way to enlightenment.
And so they proceed - Olivia, Serena, Janet and Laurel - to seek their enlightenment. But there is one complication - there is Luke - and he becomes entwined with the girls but in different ways - was this his intention or was he led?
Who will survive this program?
A compelling read.