{"product_id":"mobility-9781638089841","title":"Mobility","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece of misdirection.\" --Geraldine Brooks \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMobility\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eVietor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Kiesling . . . has pulled off a rare feat: a deeply serious, deeply political novel that is, quite often, \u003ci\u003efun \u003c\/i\u003eto read. It's a coming-of-age story full of delicious detail, keen satire, and complex humanity.\" --Amy Weiss-Meyer, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBunny Glenn believes in climate change. But she also likes to get paid.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePropulsive and thought-provoking, empathetic yet pointed, \u003ci\u003eMobility \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLydia Kiesling\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden State\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2018 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e online, and \u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e, among other outlets. She lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Platinum Spotlight Series","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50563981672722,"sku":"9781638089841","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df63555f-5370-4d00-9813-47250358f6b6.jpg?v=1737239034","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mobility-9781638089841","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}