Bittersweet Lane: How We Create Homes is my hybrid-memoir about affordable housing – what it is, how it works, and how we got here as a nation. Bittersweet Lane teaches how to build homes, while exploring the meaning of home from an intergenerational, lower-class perspective. It shines light on an obscure but crucial industry's inner workings and surprisingly deep and cursed history, Bittersweet Lane demands an honest reckoning at the intersections of housing, race, and class. Its tragic, comic, and violent histories move from Ireland to the United States, from the Bittersweet Lane Apartments to M.I.T., and from minimum wage into the professional class. Bittersweet Lane lights a path toward housing for all.

Currently seeking literary representation for this complete manuscript.

To learn more about Randolph, check out Jamie’s thesis in urban studies and planning, Randolph Boston’s Gateway Suburb