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National Bestseller
Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
One of Powellās Best Books of 2023
One of TIMEās Best Books of 2023
One of Vultureās Best Books of 2023
āA masterpiece of misdirection.ā āGeraldine Brooks
āMobility is a truly gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate greed thatās both laugh-out-loud funny and politically incisive.ā āJon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor
āKiesling . . . has pulled off a rare feat: a deeply serious, deeply political novel that is, quite often, fun to read. Itās a coming-of-age story full of delicious detail, keen satire, and complex humanity.ā āAmy 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 Bunnyās 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 ageāfrom Baku to Athens to Houstonāas 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 womanāher social milieu, her romances, her unarticulated wants. Through Bunnyās 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 fictionās singular power to illuminate a life shaped by its context.
This book title, Mobility (A Novel), ISBN: 9781638930563, by Lydia Kiesling, published by Zando (August 1, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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