“You should not, under any circumstances, expect me to be the hero of this story,” says Olivia, the backward-looking narrator of Emily Temple’s debut novel, “The Lightness.” In fact, in the end, there ...
Book review: In Emily Temple’s ‘The Lightness,’ troubled teens fall hard for promise of spirituality
"The Lightness," by Emily Temple (William Morrow, 288 pages, $26.99) Confession: I read “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt, and enjoyed it, but it did not change my life. Nor did it make me long for ...
Emily Temple began writing her debut novel, The Lightness, with a desire to capture a particular place—Karmê Chöling: Shambhala Meditation Center in Barnet, Vermont. Raised as a Buddhist, Temple used ...
The Lightness by Emily Temple Cool, dark, and pretty as a clear night sky, Lightness delivers a coming-of-age suspense tale that starts out familiar — ominous warnings, unreliable narration — before ...
The “fuck you” project crystallized one Friday night last year. As Emily Temple-Wood video-chatted with friends, an email pinged in her inbox: “There are alternate realities where I raped you and got ...
“You should not, under any circumstances, expect me to be the hero of this story,” says Olivia, the backward-looking narrator of Emily Temple’s debut novel, “The Lightness.” In fact, in the end, there ...
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