“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
I found my second agent, Julia, Lord, who is fantastic and who I picked because when I was looking at her catalog of the people that she’d represented, I found the weirdest, quirkiest stuff that she’d managed to get into the New York Times, or that she’d managed to move into being Pulitzer finalists. Because she wasn’t trying to control or contain the voices and the specificity of the writers she was working with. It still took an enormous amount of work after finding the right person to kind of unlearn a lot of the mistakes I’d been making, trying to get the book to fit into other people’s ideas.
