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The many lives of Mama Love : a memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing / Lara Love Hardin.
In 'The Many Lives of Mama Love', Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter. From the author of 'The Sun Does Shine', which was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
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- ISBN: 9781982197667 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 320 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
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| Subject: | Hardin, Lara Love. Drug addiction. Drug addicts > United States > Biography. Opioid abuse. Women ghostwriters > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 362.293092 Hardi | 31681010434066 | NONFICPBK | Checked out | 01/31/2026 |
- Baker & Taylor
"New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir"-- - Baker & Taylor
The New York Times best-selling author, who was convicted of 32 felonies, recounts her slide from soccer mom to heroin addict to jailhouse âshot callerâ and how she made an unlikely comeback despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing weâve ever done. - Simon and Schuster
âOnce you start reading, be prepared, because you wonât want to stop.â âOprah Winfrey
OPRAHâS BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.
No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighborsâ credit cards.
Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She finds that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and Lord of the Flies. Furniture is made from tampon boxes, and Snickers bars are currency. But Lara quickly learns the rules and brings love and healing to her fellow inmates as she climbs the social ladder and acquires the nickname âMama Love,â showing that jailhouse politics arenât that different from the PTA meetings she used to attend.
When sheâs released, she reinvents herself as a ghostwriter. Now, sheâs legally co-opting other peopleâs identities and getting to meet Oprah, meditate with the Dalai Lama, and have dinner with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But the shadow of her past follows her. Shame is a poison worse than heroinâthere is no way to detox. Lara must learn how to forgive herself and others, navigate life as a felon on probation, and prove to herself that she is more good than bad, among other essential lessons.
The Many Lives of Mama Love is a heartbreaking and tender journey from shame to redemption, despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing we have ever done.
