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The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

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The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread
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As a literary agent, I’ve spent years shaping the stories of other people’s grief. There was the Pulitzer-nominated journalist who’d lost her only child when he was seven. And the Black descendent of Thomas Jefferson who, upon her father’s death, finally took the stories of his lineage seriously. Then there was the New York Times bestselling author who cared for young animals only to have to euthanize them when the time came.
Over the years, I’d built a business around refining narratives of hea

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