Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

National Bestseller

"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.

Kiesling, Lydia: - Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, The Golden State, was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Cut, Slate, and The New Yorker online, and have been recognized in The Best American Essays 2016. In 2018 the was named a 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation. Kiesling lives in Portland with her family.

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ISBN 13	9781638089841
ISBN 10	1638089841
Title	Mobility
Author	Lydia Kiesling
Series	Platinum Spotlight
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Platinum Spotlight Series
Year published	2024-01-01
Number of pages	500
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