A review by jcgrenn_reads
The Lightness by Emily Temple

5.0

The Lightness—a meditation on desires of flesh and the irony of desiring whatever is beyond it. This novel is full of rich characters each struggling with her own wants amidst the backdrop of Buddhism asking them to let those go. This book as a whole revolves on what it is to have a body, to inhabit one, to be on earth but filled with the hummings of something outside earth, sprinkled with metaphysics (and physics) about the odds of one person’s ability to rise above the desires that come with growing up. This book levitated right to the top of my favorite books I’ve read this year.