Mobility

"Lydia Kiesling pulls off a feat in this novel about fossil fuels and climate change – her sharp pairing of politics and the personal eschews the didactic but remains charged. A big part of why Mobility works so well is Kiesling’s choice of protagonist: a hapless, onetime foreign service brat deliciously named Bunny Glenn. As Bunny languishes in Azerbaijan as a 1990s teenager oblivious to the global scramble for oil, stumbles into an oil career in Texas in young adulthood and grapples with our climate-wrecked future, Kiesling explores individual complicity with late capitalism."