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"More than forty-five million Americans attempt to survive under the poverty line, day by day. Nearly 60,000 people sleep in New York City-run shelters every night--forty percent of them children. This Is All I Got makes this issue deeply personal, vividly depicting one woman's hope and despair and her steadfast determination to improve her situation, despite the myriad setbacks she encounters. Camila is a twenty-two-year-old new mother. She has no family to rely on, no partner, and no home. Despite her intelligence and determination, the odds are firmly stacked against her. Award-winning journalist Lauren Sandler tells the story of a year in Camila's life--from the birth of her son to his first birthday--as she navigates the labyrinth of poverty and homelessness in America. As Camila attempts to secure a college education and a safe place to raise her son, she copes with dashed dreams, failed relationships, and miles of red tape with grit, grace, and resilience. This Is All I Got is a dramatic story of survival and powerful indictment of a broken system, but it is also a revealing and candid depiction of the relationship between an embedded reporter and her subject and the tricky boundaries to navigate when it's impossible to remain a dispassionate observer"-- Provided by publisher.

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction xiii

SUMMER

 

1 Nativity

3 (6)

2 Fourth Avenue

9 (8)

3 Homecoming

17 (11)

4 Geraldine

28 (3)

5 How To Become A Homeless Single Mother

31 (7)

6 The Decider

38 (3)

7 Mauricio

41 (4)

8 Legitimacy

45 (7)

9 Schedule B

52 (9)

10 Welfare

61 (7)

11 Ambition

68 (8)

12 Renunciations

76 (7)

13 Social Work

83 (7)

14 Who By Fire, Who By Water

90 (3)

15 Letters And Numbers

93 (4)

FALL

 

1 Admissions

97 (4)

2 College Life

101 (10)

3 Twenty-Two

111 (5)

4 Parenthood

116 (9)

5 Pedro

125 (5)

6 White Carnations

130 (3)

7 The Bottle

133 (2)

8 Salome

135 (3)

9 Other People's Couches

138 (4)

10 What To Expect

142 (8)

11 For Now

150 (3)

12 The Magic

153 (3)

13 Sherman Avenue

156 (6)

14 Time

162 (3)

15 Child Support

165 (6)

16 Cold

171 (2)

17 Back On Fourth

173 (2)

18 Finding Of Fact

175 (5)

19 Thanksgiving Dinner

180 (5)

WINTER

 

1 Camila And Me

185 (4)

2 Bronx Baby

189 (3)

3 Self-Care

192 (4)

4 Christmastime

196 (6)

5 The Lottery

202 (5)

6 Dario

207 (6)

7 The Letter

213 (3)

8 Closed Doors

216 (5)

9 Men

221 (6)

10 Windfall

227 (6)

SPRING

 

1 Standards

233 (4)

2 Those Good Old Days

237 (6)

3 Either That Or The Street

243 (3)

4 The Labyrinth

246 (5)

5 Trust

251 (17)

6 Soy Dominicana

268 (11)

7 The Driver

279 (7)

8 Family

286 (4)

9 To All The Ladies

290 (7)

10 Terminated

297 (2)

11 Commencement

299 (3)

12 The Birthday Party

302 (5)

Epilogue 307 (18)

Acknowledgments 325