The Lightness: A Novel
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HarperAudio, 2020.
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9h 56m 13s
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English
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9780063015609

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Emily Temple., Emily Temple|AUTHOR., & Brittany Pressley|READER. (2020). The Lightness: A Novel . HarperAudio.

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Emily Temple, Emily Temple|AUTHOR and Brittany Pressley|READER. 2020. The Lightness: A Novel. HarperAudio.

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Emily Temple, Emily Temple|AUTHOR and Brittany Pressley|READER. The Lightness: A Novel HarperAudio, 2020.

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Emily Temple, Emily Temple|AUTHOR, and Brittany Pressley|READER. The Lightness: A Novel HarperAudio, 2020.

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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. 
 
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