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Living the Dream at the Worst Time

I landed my first book contract in the middle of the hardest year of my life

Sarah Stankorb
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readAug 31, 2022
A woman signing a contract with a ballpoint pen
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I asked a friend how she was doing the other day. She told me, honestly, that professionally things had never been so good; personally, they were brutal. I’ve had essentially the same sort of year.

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Sarah Stankorb
Human Parts

Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com