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Mobility

Mobility

Kiesling, Lydia

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ISBN10: 1638930562
ISBN13: 9781638930563
Publisher: Zando - Crooked Media Reads
Published: Aug 1 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
National Bestseller
Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
A Powell's Best Book of 2023
A TIME Best Book of 2023
A Vulture Best Book of 2023

A masterpiece of misdirection. ―Geraldine Brooks

Mobility is a truly gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate greed that's both laugh-out-loud funny and politically incisive. ―Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor

Kiesling . . . has pulled off a rare feat: a deeply serious, deeply political novel that is, quite often, fun to read. It's a coming-of-age story full of delicious detail, keen satire, and complex humanity. ―Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic

Bunny Glenn believes in climate change. But she also likes to get paid.

The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age―from Baku to Athens to Houston―as her own ambition and desire for comfort lead her to a career in the oil industry, eventually returning to the scene of her youth, where slippery figures from the past reappear in an era of political and climate breakdown.

Propulsive and thought-provoking, empathetic yet pointed, Mobility is a story about class, power, politics, and desire told through the life of one woman―her social milieu, her romances, her unarticulated wants. Through Bunny's life choices, Lydia Kiesling masterfully explores American forms of complicity and inertia, moving between the local and the global, the personal and the political, and using fiction's singular power to illuminate a life shaped by its context.

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