Weightless, Sarah Bannan
Weightless, Sarah Bannan
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Weightless
A Novel

Author: Sarah Bannan

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women, Coming Of Age


Synopsis

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.

About Sarah Bannan

Sarah Bannan grew up in New York, Texas, Florida and Alabama. She is the Head of Literature for the Irish Arts Council and lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and daughter. Weightless is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanna

WOW... what an excellent novel. Powerful stuff. At first I was kind of annoyed with the book, but after a few chapters I was no longer annoyed, I was hooked. I think this might be the first book I've read that's written in first person plural. While it was very different at first, it ended up workin......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

4.5 stars Out of the almost 700 books I have rated and reviewed on Goodreads, Weightless emerges as the best book I have read about bullying. I loved the prose, hated the characters, and by the end of the story I started to question my own complicity in the cruelty I have witnessed within my own life......more

Goodreads review by Liz

Well Jeez Louise, what a darkly unrelenting, brilliantly emotional and utterly authentic book that was. This one incidentally is another one that author Louise O Neill insisted I read - yep thanks Louise. As with "Bright Places" you've managed to find me another story that has left me emotionally tr......more


Quotes

“Riveting, agile, and beautifully judged: one of those essential stories that will capture the imagination of different generations of readers. Superb.” —Colum McCann

“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.” —John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Weightless 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.” —Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea