{"product_id":"9780008332686","title":"The Lightness","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A psychologically smart debut that swathes teen desire and friendship in mystery and mirth'\n\u003cbr\u003e Observer\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'Like a twisted Malory Towers or maybe a cosmic version of 'Heathers''\n\u003cbr\u003e Daily Mail\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'Funny, whip-smart and transcendently wise' Jenny Offill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'The love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French' Chloe Benjamin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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, Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e There, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, a 'Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls', and finds herself drawn into the company of a close-knit trio of girls determined that this is the summer they will finally learn to levitate, to defy the weight of their bodies, to experience ultimate lightness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e But as desire and danger intertwine, and Olivia comes ever closer to discovering what a body - and a girl - is capable of, it becomes increasingly clear that this is an advanced and perilous practice, and there's a chance not all of them will survive...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'A beautiful meditation on meditation...populated with girls who refuse to act the way they're expected to; who have too much passion, too many feelings and nowhere to put them'\n\u003cbr\u003e New York Times\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'A disquieting and astute reflection on desire, truth, friendship and the siren call of weightlessness'\n\u003cbr\u003e Daily Mail\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'A darkly funny, luminously drawn mystery' Téa Obreht, author of Inland and The Tiger's Wife\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'This remarkable novel is made up of equal parts desire and dread' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 'A bold, smart, hilarious new voice. A classic must read!' Mary Karr, author of Lit\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Borough Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52904381120821,"sku":"EB_LI0700_N07-03_AD","price":54.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9780008332686-1.jpg?v=1789399048","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ja\/products\/9780008332686","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}