

Palm Beach
A Novel
Author: Mary Adkins
Narrator: Stacey Glemboski
Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/03/2021
Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life, Southern
Author: Mary Adkins
Narrator: Stacey Glemboski
Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/03/2021
Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life, Southern
Mary Adkins is the author of When You Read This, Privilege, and Palm Beach. A native of the American South and a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Atlantic. She also teaches storytelling for The Moth. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
"Palm Beach" by Mary Adkins is a story about 'The Have's' and The Have Not's'! Rebecca, a freelance journalist, is married to Mickey, an actor who actually works more at catering than acting. They're tired of struggling financially and living scrunched into their Queen's apartment, even more so after......more
Oddly, this book felt like a page-turner while reading it, and looking back I'm not sure why. It's about a new mom who moves from NYC to Palm Beach where her husband has gotten a butler job making six figures. All the characters have very rigid morals that they are forced to confront and reconsider,......more
This is an arresting novel. Once I was captured by the plot, I couldn’t put it down. It might be one of the least predictable books I’ve read. Rebecca and Mickey find themselves in Palm Beach after a series of crazy events find Mickey in need of an immediate career change and a job. As a struggling......more
Talk about a page turner! Usually for me, the only books that fall under that category are juicy thrillers, but there was something about Palm Beach that hooked me and wouldn’t let me go! Married couple Rebecca and Mickey are thirtysomething New Yorkers, struggling to make ends meet after the arrival......more