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Podcast: NPR's Book of the Day
Episode: 'Mobility' examines wealth and climate change through the eyes of a teenage girl
Description: Elizabeth "Bunny" Glenn likes reading Cosmopolitan and watching soap operas – but the teenager is blithely aware of how power and wealth operate around her. She's the daughter of a diplomat in Azerbaijan tasked with ensuring oil pipeline access in Lydia Kiesling's new novel, Mobility. In today's episode, the author speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about how her protagonist feigns oblivion to pave her own career in the fossil fuel industry, and how her complicity in climate change makes her a complex character to write.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy