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Mobility: A Novel

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“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 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. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Media Reads (August 1, 2023)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 1, 2023


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 1353 KB


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled


Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • A woman's journey through global energy geopolitics
Thanks for NetGalley for the eARC. I inhaled this book. I loved the main character, even though she is objectively kind of boring. The author does a very good job of combining global politics with the quotidian life of an embassy brat who is trying to figure out and make her way in the world. Like all of us, Bunny, the MC, is subsumed by the needs of her ego: the right cosmetics and a job that validates her. She is a good person that cannot grasp the abstractions that are leading to the destruction of the planet. This is very much a realistic novel of human behavior. There are no heroes or villains, just people fumbling around. I loved how the novel focuses on this one lifespan in which so much climate change will occur. She was born into one world and will die in another. Her industry paid its human masters handsomely but took wealth from the future. The only issue I had with the novel is that it really did not have a plot. But I loved the MC do much, I did not really care. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2023 by Katherine Herrera
    • A deeply researched and thoroughly enjoyable novel of the modern oil age
Mobility begins in the late 1990s at the American embassy in Azerbaijan. That's where bored teenager Bunny Glenn endures a summer with her father, who is posted there with the U.S. Foreign Service. It's also where Bunny begins to learn about the geopolitics of oil—although much of her attention is focused on fashion, boys and other age-appropriate obsessions. Bunny is modeled after the character of the same name from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, one of Kiesling's main influences for Mobility. The novel follows Bunny into adulthood as she ends up in Texas working in the oil and gas industry herself. The novel is a deeply researched account of the global consequences of extractive industries as well as a sly look at the political currents of Bunny's youth, at the misguided "lean in" message of the Sheryl Sandberg era and how it all shaped the woman she becomes. Although Bunny is singular as a character, she stands in for the complicity of her class and generation as they face climate change. Mobility has parallels to the global nomad elites of Intimacies by Katie Kitamura and the coming-of-age story in The Idiot by Elif Batuman. And of course, readers who've read Oil! will appreciate Kiesling's allusions to the classic work. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2023 by Erika Bolstad
    • Engaging, perfect summary for modern life
This novel was engaging and a mirror for life of people at a certain age. With no prior experience with this author, I found this book via Crooked Media and the Lovett or Leave It Podcast. Kiesling's writing is smart, but approachable. She weaves a story of Bunny (Elizabeth) Glenn at as she grows from a teenager in diplomatic firm overseas to an executive at Oil company. The novel traces Bunny's life struggling to reconcile her professional life with a tumultuous personal life. I absolutely could not put this book down and finished it in a weekend. Kiesling so accurately captures what it feels like to be an elder-millennial as society is approaching late-stage capitalism struggling to balance our need for personal and professional validation with personal morals and politics. But don't worry, it's not preachy at all. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2023 by Jono T
    • An engrossing and important book
Serious Jonathan Franzen vibes from reading this. The story of Bunny Glenn keeps you invested the whole way through - not only is it a page turner, it reveals so much about who we are as a society, the choices we make, and what we tell ourselves to sleep at night. You know a book is good when you want to go back and read everything else that author has done before - I'd read anything Lydia Kiesling writes. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023 by Lauren H.
    • Absolutely Incredible
Best book I have read in a long time. Lydia Kiesling & Bunny are absolutely amazing people to walk through corporate greed with!
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2023 by Chris
    • Good book, bad narrator
I enjoyed the novel, but I wish I'd bought the hardback instead of on Audible. I was distracted by the narrator mispronouncing so many words.
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023 by Ed

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