Second a second book to your agent is one of the (many) anxiety-provoking parts of a writer's life

Two days ago, I sent a middle-ish draft of my sociopathic mom book (now entitled Hugs and Kisses: A Novel) to my agent. Since this is a novel for a general audience, and he doesn't generally rep novels for a general audience, I didn't even run the idea for the book past him before I started writing it. And my email to him was the first time I'd given hi…