Lydia Kiesling
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National Bestseller
Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
One of Powell's Best Books of 2023
One of TIME's Best Books of 2023
One of Vulture's Best Books of 2023
"A masterpiece of misdirection." —Geraldine Brooks
"Mobility is a truly gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate greed that's both laugh-out-loud funny and
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents...