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Weightless

A Novel

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When Carolyn Lessing moves from New Jersey to Alabama with her mother, she rattles the status quo of the juniors at Adams High. Gorgeous, stylish, a great student and gifted athlete without a mean girl bone in her body Carolyn is gobbled up right away by the school's cliques. She even begins dating a senior, Shane, whose on again/off again girlfriend Brooke becomes Carolyn's bitter romantic rival. When a make-out video of Carolyn and Shane makes the rounds, Carolyn goes from golden girl to slut in an instant, with Brooke and her best friend responsible for the campaign.

Carolyn is hounded and focused on, and becomes more and more private. Questions about her family and her habits torture her. But a violent confrontation with Shane and Brooke in the student parking lot is the last attack Carolyn can take.

A novel to drop us all back into the intensity of our high school years, WEIGHTLESS is a startling and assured debut.

 Coming of Age Genre Fiction Women's Fiction Student

Critic reviews

<p>“Riveting, agile, and beautifully judged: one of those essential stories that will capture the imagination of different generations of readers. Superb.” —<i>Colum McCann</i><br><br>“A provocative and timely novel.... Its subject matter is universal; parents and children around the world will recognise the difficult and fractured society it depicts.” —<i>John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas</i><br><br>“<i>Weightless</i> is...the work of a gifted storyteller with important things to say about the world we and our children inhabit. It is intelligent and nuanced but urgently relevant, and it's bravely and beautifully written.” —<i>Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea</i></p>
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