Lydia Kiesling’s Novel 'Mobility' Explores Ethical Dilemmas; And A Quick Update on the Trump Indictments

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on four counts related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. We check in with KQED senior politics editor Scott Shafer about the importance of Trump’s third indictment, what it means for the 2024 election and how California’s Republican party is responding. Then, we talk to Lydia Kiesling, a former resident of the Bay Area, about her new book, “Mobility." Bunny Glenn, the protagonist in Kiesling’s novel, voted for Barack Obama, believes in the science of climate change and, as the daughter of a diplomat was steeped in the effects of environmental devastation and resource wars. She also works in the oil industry. And it’s this ethical compromise, and all the little compromises people make every day, that center Kiesling’s novel. Inspired by the oil power grabs in former Soviet states, and drawn from her own childhood as the daughter of a Foreign Service officer, “Mobility” captures the rootlessness of a young woman struggling to find her place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:15.1	Lydia Kiesling's new novel, Mobility, tracks Bunny Glenn,
1:18.8	a liberal State Department official's kid who ends up in marketing for the oil and gas industry
1:23.1	as she finds her way from post-Soviet boy-crazy teen-dom to climate catastrophe grandparenting.
1:29.3	It's a brilliant book, clear-eyed, tender-hearted, and driven by the pain of adulting in a morally compromised world.
1:36.3	We'll talk with Keasling about the ethical trade-offs that her character makes, which just might sound familiar to some people here in our Uber expensive region.
1:47.6	But first, you may have heard former President Trump was indicted.
1:50.4	Again, we'll check in with Scott Schaefer about the latest.
1:53.0	That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on four counts related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This is the indictment, the third for the former president, that many legal observers have been waiting for as it relates directly to the
2:18.1	foundations of our democracy. Hours before the indictment became public, the New York Times released
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