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Margaret Renkl

Age: Fifty-eight. Residence: Nashville. Book: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions, July 2019), a collection of essays, including illustrations by the author’s brother, that offer a lyrical portrait of a family while tracing the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Agent: Kristyn Keene Benton of ICM Partners. Editor: Joey McGarvey.

MY SISTER-IN-LAW’S new bangs a re so cute, and I am not at all cute. It’s 1998,

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