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Lauren Sandler

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in Boston, Mass., The United States

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Women & Gender Studies

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I'm a journalist and author who writes about culture and inequality. My new book is called THIS IS ALL I GOT: A New Mother's Search For home.

When I moved to New York City in 1992, homelessness was already considered a national crisis. The night I unpacked my bags uptown, 23,482 people slept in the city’s public shelters. By the 2015 evening I met Camila, a twenty-two-year old homeless soon-to-be single mother, that number had ballooned to more than 60,000 people.

THIS IS ALL I GOT begins as Camila goes into labor in a shelter in Brooklyn, and follows her to the overcrowded Bronx apartment where she lands after an untimely eviction. The book witnesses her navigate welfare benefits, housing vouchers, child support, and what she must endure t ...more

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	One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One 3.59 avg rating — 2,013 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is All I Got 4.37 avg rating — 1,283 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing By Joan Didion's Light by Steffie Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jori Finkel (Contributor), Ann Friedman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement 3.57 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One and Only 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One: Written by Lauren Sandler, 2014 Edition, (Reprint) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publish [Paperback] by Lauren Sandler (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Prophecy: One Family, Two Nations, and a World on Fire 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Prophecy: One Family, Two Nations, and a World on Fire 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slouching Towards Los Angeles by Steffie Nelson (Goodreads Author), Lauren Sandler (Goodreads Author), Jessica Hundley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

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“in a way though it is easier to give in to a decision to have a second than to stand firm in one’s wish to only have one child.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

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“It seems the more of a parent you are, the less you are of anything else.”
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