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The Many Lives of Mama Love

A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing and Healing

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The Many Lives of Mama Love

By: Lara Love Hardin
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'Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop.' -Oprah Winfrey

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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.

When she's released, she reinvents herself as a ghostwriter. Now, she's legally co-opting other people's 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 heroin-there 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.©2023 Lara Love Hardin (P)2023 Octopus Publishing Group Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions True Crime Memoir
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Tells such a compelling and beautiful story about growth, hardship and family. 10/10 I would listen 100 times again.

Fantastic!!!

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Loved this book! Lara’s voice is so easy to listen to wish she would do more audio reading!

Loved Mama Love

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Loved the lessons the honesty the gift of hope , the message is simple , we are all human , we all make mistakes we can change

Truth

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Couldn’t put it down- well written, the author really takes you by the hand into the depths of this incredible story

Brilliant and inspiring memoir

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As an adoptive parent I see it as part of my role to educate people on just how up against it my sons birth parents were/are and to find the love and the compassion for their story’s as well as my sons onward journey of identity. To read/listen to this and know that there are parents who (with an earth shattering amount of strength) can break free and succeed against the odds brings me so much joy and happiness. A story of true love.

Honesty & Motherhood

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