Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh, fresh off of Parenthelieve.

I don't know if, like, fresh is the best term to describe where I'm at right now.

But anyway, big, big shout out to all the folks who filled in for me while I was away.

You know, so thank you, Linda, Glenn, Tinbee, Chloe, and Kia for holding down the fort.

But on today's pod, we've got the author Lydia Keesling.

Her new book is called Mobility.

And it deals with climate change, culpability, and the keen observational sense of teenage girls,

which, if you've ever been, like, roasted by one, you know how they can just

see something's clearer than the rest of us. But age comes for us all, and Kiesling tells

NPR Scott Simon about how our main character willfully blinds herself to certain things to

get ahead in an industry that benefits from all of us being kind of oblivious.

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In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.

Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors on our new show, sources and methods.

NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people helping you understand

why distant events matter here at home. Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever

you get your podcasts. Elizabeth Bunny Glenn came to adolescence in a place where the beach smelled

like oil and the oil smelled like money.

Azerbaijan, after the Soviet Union had come apart,

global superpowers poured into old Soviet satellites along the Caspian Sea

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