My Books
For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.
★★★★★
Had me laughing out loud in a way I haven’t while reading a book in…well, I don’t know how long.
-Carolyn P., Amazon
From the beloved author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a contemporary Southern college campus in the spirit of The Female Persuasion and Prep.
★★★★★
I finished and immediately texted my girlfriends, “You have to read this book.”
-Collyn B., Goodreads
A thought-provoking page-turner from the author of When You Read This and Privilege that captures the painful divide between the haves and have-nots and the seductive lure of the American dream.
I was so incredibly sucked into this book that I finished it in a day even though I very much had other things to do and hadn’t planned to read all day. I can’t believe it hasn’t had more hype!
-Becca Freeman, author of Back Where We Started and The Christmas Orphans’ Club
Honest, insightful, and even funny, You Might Feel a Little Pressure explores how an unfulfilled dream can change what we think we know, and grief can lead to places brighter than we imagined.
★★★★★
This book provided the catharsis I needed as I dealt with all the emotions that came with weekly lab draws and an elevated hCG that hung on for weeks before finally coming back down to zero. The only reason I ever put it down was because it was evoking emotions I knew I needed to pause to process, or because it was feeling so on-the-nose relatable in making me feel less alone that I wanted to savor reading it for as long as possible. Not to mention, Adkins writes in a colloquial style that I would emulate if I was a writer. Overall: it made me laugh, it made me cry, and it helped me refocus on what matters.
-Alyssa M., Goodreads
Representation
For questions involving rights to her work, Mary is represented by Margaret Riley King and Liza Mullet at WME.