Mary Adkins, PALM BEACH: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Author and writing coach Mary Adkins joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel, Palm Beach, which was inspired in part by her family's move to Florida in 2019. The two talk about the aspects of Mary's real life that made it into the book, what research she did on income inequality to create the story's primary tension, and why some of her friends weren't huge fans of her protagonist. Mary also shares what she's currently reading and where she is with her next project.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.3 | Mary Adkins is the author of Palm Beach, a novel. Mary's also the author of novels When |
| 0:46.4 | You Read This, which was an indie next pick, a best book of 2019 by Good Housekeeping and Real Simple, |
| 0:52.0 | Privilege, which was a today.com best summer read, |
| 0:54.9 | a New York Post best book of the week, and most recently Palm Beach. |
| 0:58.9 | Quote, like a sandy beach, equal parts beautiful and uncomfortable, according to the |
| 1:03.1 | Associated Press. Her books have been published in 13 countries, and her essays and reporting |
| 1:07.7 | have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and Moore, a graduate of Yale Law School and Duke University, she teaches creative writing to |
| 1:14.6 | aspiring authors through her 12-month coaching program, The Book Incubator. |
| 1:18.8 | Welcome, Mary. Thanks so much for coming on. Momsdon have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:22.3 | Palm Beach. Thanks. I'm so happy to be here. I am so interested in this book because I have been to Palm Beach many times and have been in settings similar to the one you're just crying. And this has been really funny to read. So I am loving. I just love the book. I am like loving it, loving it. And it's so well written, by the way. I wish I had read it when it first came out and that this podcast wasn't now because I would have forced myself to start it earlier, |
| 1:47.5 | but it's awesome. And I'm sure you know that, but I want you to know that I know it too. Thanks. And it's still pretty recent. I mean, it's only been out a couple months, so we're not too late here. Not too late. Okay, good. Good. Okay, so one of the main, well, why don't you tell everybody what it's about? And then I'll go into. |
| 1:46.7 | So Palm Beach is the story. late. Okay, good. Good. Okay, so one of the main, well, why don't you tell everybody what it's about, and then I'll go into. |
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