One Young Mother and the Homelessness Crisis

The Book Review

The New York Times

Arts, Books

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Lauren Sandler talks about “This Is All I Got,” and Sarah Weinman discusses classic mysteries.

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0:00.0	What's like really like for a homeless family in New York?
0:09.1	Lauren Sandler will be here to talk about her new book.
0:12.0	This is all I got, a new mother's search for home.
0:15.5	Which classic mysteries should you listen to on audio?
0:18.5	Sarah Weinman will join us to give us her expert recommendations.
0:22.6	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world.
0:25.6	Plus, we'll talk about what we and the water world are reading.
0:29.1	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:31.8	It's May 15th.
0:33.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:43.6	Lauren Sandler joins us now from Brooklyn.
0:45.7	Her new book is called This Is All I Got, a new mother's search for home.
0:49.9	Lauren, thanks for being here.
0:51.6	Thank you.
0:52.6	I'm so happy to be here.
0:53.7	So this book got a stellar review in our pages this week from Alex Kotlowitz.
0:59.4	It's very exciting.
1:00.8	And it's similar issues to the ones that he explores.
1:03.9	This book is about a homeless mother.
1:07.1	How did you get started on the project?
1:10.0	Well, I knew I wanted to write about homelessness.
1:12.3	I've been writing about inequality and specifically gender inequality for a long time.
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