Praise for Books
“A riveting adventure into the world of memory control where nightmarish consequences await. Memorable characters and a chilling plot are certain to keep the reader turning pages deep into the night.” —Leonard Goldberg, author of the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mysteries
“I quite liked this novel of a friendship and how it endured a pregnancy and a shared love and the past.” —Roxane Gay
“Fast-paced with nail-biting twists and turns, Adverse Effects plunges you into the pharmacological world of memory manipulation and leaves you on the edge of your seat. Five enthusiastic stars for Joel Shulkin’s medical thriller, a fascinating and gripping debut.” —Carrie Rubin, author of The Bone Curse
“Emily Adrian is such a uniquely perceptive writer, possessing a kind of X-ray vision that finds the hidden truths inside of us, no matter how painful they might be. Everything Here Is under Control skillfully lays out a story that converges on motherhood, friendship, and our responsibilities to the world around us, the lives that touch us. A beautiful, bracing novel by an amazing, open-hearted writer.” —Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here
“Adverse Effects is a ‘step on the gas pedal and hold on tight’ read. An action-packed medical thriller that doesn’t let up until the very last page.” —Mary Lawrence, author of The Alchemist’s Daughter
“Emily Adrian writes with deft assurance and penetrating insight about the intensities of motherhood, marriage, and female friendship.” —Heather Harpham, author of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi–Ever After
“When heroine Cristina Silva’s nightmares start to become your own, you know you are reading a good book. Adverse Effects is such a book, an excellent medical thriller.” —Ken McClure, author of the Dr. Steven Dunbar series
“I could not put down this brilliant, beautiful book. It’s about the elastic, resilient love of our earliest friendships. It’s about the challenges of motherhood at any age. It’s about how the lands of our childhood define and complicate us—and how we can never leave them completely. Everything Here Is under Control is everything I want a novel to be: suspenseful, emotional, intellectual, and populated with characters so true and dimensional that their shocks and pains and happiness merge into my own. Emily Adrian is a force. Now, go read her book.” —Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn’t Talk about When I Was a Girl
“A thrilling biotech novel. This is a superb fast-paced book with excellent depth of characters and scientific background. Lots of easily understood biotech that provides the foundation for great suspense and lots surprises that are completely believable.” —Alessandro Boccaletti, author of Veritas: The Pharmacological Endgame
“The women fall into steady, if wary, rhythm with each other, their reunion setting the stage for the unfurling of a long-kept secret that’s made all the more dramatic by the intense and often thrilling complexity of this relationship…Filled with compelling characters…Full of texture and authentic human ambivalence.” —New York Times Book Review
“Riveting from page one, Adverse Effects caught my attention from the very beginning. I couldn’t stop reading. You want this book.” —Shiloh Walker, nationally bestselling author
“A tender novel about early motherhood, small-town life, and the various ways people make their families.” —The Millions
“Joel Shulkin has crafted a superb novel that’s a tour de force of medical suspense. Electrifying and gripping, get ready for a spine-tingling story that will have you racing through the pages from the moment you begin.” —Gary Birken, MD, author of Code 15
“How Emily Adrian could write a book so honest and raw about the first weeks of motherhood and yet so appealing and unputdownable and—dare I say, heartwarming—is a mystery of novelistic alchemy. Nonetheless, there it levitates: light as a feather and heavy as a stone, a romantic comedy that redefines the terms of traditional romance and takes happily ever after far beyond the loss of maidenhood. Magic, addictive, brilliant fun.” —Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen
“Fast-paced and full of surprises. Authentic medicine and plenty of suspense makes Adverse Effects one heck of a debut thriller.” —Daniel Palmer, USA Today bestselling author of Mercy and The First Family
“A sharp, thoughtful, poignant look at early motherhood, a small town, and the complex, challenging, and beautiful relationships that make up our families both biological and chosen.” —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State
“I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good, realistic medical thriller. It will have you guessing until the very end.” —San Francisco Book Review
“Brutally tender, ferociously intimate, astonishingly surefooted, and deeply satisfying. Emily Adrian has crafted a multilayered story whose people—I hesitate to call them mere ‘characters’—became so real and vivid to me that I’ve thought about them long since finishing the book. An immersive, irresistible pleasure.” —Chelsey Johnson, author of Stray City
“Quirky, resonant…With keen wit and affecting emotion, Everything Here Is under Control is a novel about love, family, and motherhood that balances compromises with possibilities.” —Foreword Reviews
“[A] wonderful new novel…[A] precise, poignant, and thrilling story of friendship, motherhood, and the one-way road to adulthood…It’s Amanda’s emotional journey, urgent and searching, that drives the book, moving it with the pulse and pace of a thriller.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“There is so much to examine here, from the harrowing experience of new motherhood to the role of a father in an infant’s first days. Amanda’s complex relationship with Deerling, which includes her own mother, is worth noting, too, and a twist midway through the book adds great intensity to the story. But the heart of the novel is Carrie and Amanda’s friendship, with all its sorrow and joy. A perfect selection for book groups.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Warm, compassionate, funny, and filled with surprises, Everything Here Is under Control is an accomplished novel by a writer to watch.” —Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon
“I tore through Everything Here Is under Control in just a couple of days, compelled by its refreshingly honest portrayals of not only early motherhood but the kind of childhood friendship that shapes the rest of your life. Emily Adrian writes with such a keen and sensitive eye, and she’s funny, and she is an astute observer of human behavior. I cheered when I got to the plot twist midway through, and, even now, I can’t get this novel’s characters out of my mind.” —Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California
“Adrian’s meticulous, wry adult debut follows thirty-one-year-old new mother Amanda through her insecurities and anxieties…Adrian’s portrayal of the ups and downs of motherhood will resonate with readers.” —Publishers Weekly
“A delight to read. The author seems to really understand the true sense of what it is like to be a new mother, with all the self-doubt, worry, and pure love that come along with that role…The book is easy to read, because you want to know and understand the characters better. In the end, you do understand them, and maybe understand yourself a bit better as well.” —Manhattan Book Review
