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Lisa Reit's THE WAITRESS, pitched as THE GUEST meets THE LOST DAUGHTER, about an acclaimed writer's unraveling after her husband pays a waitress from the town cafe to disappear, a confounding act he doesn't explain—even as it unleashes a torrent of shocking consequences and betrayals, to Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press, at auction, by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management (NA). Rights also to Sophie Missing at Scribner UK (UK). Rights: Allison Malecha at Trellis Literary … read more
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