Mobility Audiobook Libro.fm

A propulsive novel about class power politics and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State The year is 1998 the End of History The Soviet Union is dissolved the Cold War is over and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family Through Bunnys eyes we watch global interests flock to the former Soviet Union during the rush for Caspian oil and pipeline access hear rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle agefrom Azerbaijan to Americaas the entwined idols of capitalism and ambition lead her to a career in the oil industry and eventually back to the scene of her youth where familiar figures reappear in an era of political and climate breakdown Both geopolitical exploration and domestic comingofage novel Mobilityis a propulsive and challenging story about class power politics and desire told through the life of one womanher social milieu her romances her unarticulated wants Mobility deftly explores American forms of complicity and inertia moving between the local and the global the personal and the political and using fictions power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context