With or Without You

"In Sanders's hands, what is usually cliche or gratuitous is hot." --Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls

Award-winning novelist Lauren Sanders offers a story about the isolation and loneliness of adolescence and the neglect--benign as it may be--of the familial, cultural, and political institutions that are supposed to provide some sort of "support system."

Lauren Sanders is a novelist and journalist who lives in New York City. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, "Kamikaze Lust" (Akashic, 2000), won a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. Sanders's writing has appeared in many publications including the "American Book Review," "Poets amp Writers," and "Time Out New York."