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🗓️ 4 August 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Erin and Alyssa here to share a special excerpt from Crooked Media Reads |
0:05.6 | first ever book release Mobility by Lydia Kiesling. |
0:09.5 | Okay, let me paint the picture for you. The year is 1998, the year I graduated. |
0:14.4 | The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager |
0:19.9 | in Azerbaijan with her foreign service family. Already off to a great start. Sounds like it, |
0:26.6 | so we will follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age as her ambition and desire for comfort |
0:31.1 | lead her to a career in the oil industry. Eventually, she returns to the scene of her youth |
0:35.5 | where slippery figures from the past reappear in an era of political and climate catastrophe. |
0:40.8 | Bunny is described as someone who, quote, believes in climate change, but, quote, also likes to get paid. |
0:47.0 | I mean, points for honesty. At least she's honest. Yeah, she's not trying to make PSA is saying. |
0:53.4 | Actually, oil, good helps the upside help earth true to Crooked Mobility is both funny and |
1:00.9 | politically incisive and Vulture included it on their 14 books we can't wait to read the summer |
1:05.4 | list. Stay tuned for a sneak peek of the audio book. We hope you enjoy the preview and if you're |
1:10.1 | interested, you can get mobility right now by heading to Crooked.com slash mobility or wherever books |
1:15.6 | are sold. The holiday cards. Bunny and Mary Ellen were |
1:22.1 | sitting in the living room drinking eggnog and watching a puro rerun while Bunny worked on her |
1:27.8 | eBay listings. She had devoted herself to the disposition of some of her grandmother's household |
1:33.0 | effects upon the sale of which she received a 25% commission as agreed on by her mother and |
1:39.2 | uncle Warren. Every day, the house lost some Victorian furniture or decorative porcelain item |
1:46.6 | fared it out by Bunny's grandmother from an antique barn stunning antique cranberry glass face |
1:53.3 | circa 1880s bunny typed hunched over her computer a knee up by her chin collector's item |
2:01.7 | when she had sold enough of her grandmother's possessions she was going to buy herself something |
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