At Lit Hub she tagged twenty books that are laced with sinister magic, including:
Emily Temple, The Lightness (William Morrow)Read about another entry on the list.
At the start of this novel, our heroine arrives at the Buddhist meditation center where her father disappeared a year ago. She enrolls herself in their “Buddhist boot camp for bad girls,” where she meets a trio of mysterious young women who are determined to unlock the secrets of levitation. The dark underbelly of this story comes in the form of female adolescence: the alluring older man who abuses his power, the obsession with the lightness of our bodies, and those twisted female friendships that make you feel loved one minute and utterly alone the next.
The Lightness is among Micah Nemerever's five novels about destructive romantic friendships.
My Book, The Movie: The Lightness.
The Page 69 Test: The Lightness.
--Marshal Zeringue
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