Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

The powerful memoir of a female African American advertising executive's unprecedented, unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era. “When you get dealt a tough hand, you might choose to fold or you might decide to hold. If you’re Valerie Graves, you reshuffle the whole damn deck . . . Graves’s can’t-stop-won’t-stop energy offers a jump start toward meeting objectives and renews hope. Pressure Makes Diamonds is about more than overcoming.” —Essence Magazine This is the unflinching