Title:
The many lives of Mama Love : memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing
Memoir of lying, stealing, writing, & healing
Memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing
Author:
Published:
2024
2023
Format:
Books
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Edition:
Simon & Schuster edition.
Physical Description:
309 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
"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 neighbors? 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 ?Mama Love,? showing that jailhouse politics aren?t that different from the PTA meetings she used to attend..." --Amazon.com
General Note:
"Oprah's book club 2024"--Front cover.
Contents:
As needed for pain -- Staycation -- Cul-de-sacs and squad cars -- The Sally port -- Country music hell -- Makeover -- Lost girls -- Mama Love -- New year, new you -- Roll it up -- The neighbor from hell -- Push and pull -- Mother's day -- All buses lead to the same place -- Joint and several -- Fucking Google -- The four-minute mile -- A beautiful day in the neighborhood -- The Dalai Lama hates me -- Many lives -- Real power -- The worst thing I have ever done.
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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 neighbors? 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 ?Mama Love,? showing that jailhouse politics aren?t that different from the PTA meetings she used to attend..." --Amazon.com
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ISBN:
9781668069608
