Margaux and the Vicious Circle

MARGAUX ANDREWS , an aspiring young writer living in Lower Manhattan, has penned a semi-autobiographical novel about her traumatic early childhood in Colorado, including the unresolved disappearance of a friend from the apartment complex where her family lives. After sending more than one hundred queries, she faces a trove of rejections, with agents criticizing the story's believability.   Just as hope dims, Margaux receives a surprising response from her one hundredth-and-thirty-something