Lauren Sullivan

2 months ago | slj.com | Lauren Sullivan

. May 2025. 256p. Tr $24.99. ISBN 9780063207899. COPY ISBN Gr 3-7–Lu’s grandmother Shan is a great geozoologist who travels around the country, studying megafauna and helping people. Whenever she visits Lu and her mother, she tells stories of her life’s work; Lu wants to be just like her and join her on her next adventure. Meanwhile, Ren is from a family of high expectations. Her brother is perfect, and she is expected to be just like him; when she isn’t, she is labeled as a disappointment.

Nov 21, 2024 | nytimes.com | Lauren Sullivan

I’m embarrassed to admit how much I’ve stressed about furnishing one room in my house. The oddly shaped main bedroom? Nope, that was a cinch. Our narrow-as-can-be galley kitchen? It was fully outfitted within hours of moving in. The room that’s confounded me—and has been the focus of endless conversations with my husband, mom, and every friend who’s stepped foot in our house—is our painfully low-stakes office–meets–guest room.

Nov 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Lauren Sullivan

About a dozen years ago, I put about a dozen items on my wedding registry. I remember making the wishlist, thinking how bizarre it was to ask loved ones to give my boyfriend and me spatulas, sheets, and vacuums. After all, we’d lived an entire decade as competent pseudo-adults. Why did our engagement make us second-guess our current spatula, one that made fried eggs perfectly well for years? Why did betrothed households require Williams Sonoma? The registry tradition puzzled me.