Meredith’s Thoughts: This is an important read!
Oprah’s Book Club Pick
In a harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir, New York Times bestselling writer 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. This book will inspire countless readers to confront their own shame and their own stories, and then galvanize a cultural conversation about our harsh and never-ending punishment of formerly incarcerated people.
This paperback edition will include a chapter that updates the author’s life and also a new chapter describing her experience as an Oprah Book Club Pick.
Praise for The Many Lives of Mama Love
“Heartfelt, humor-tinged prose…The Many Lives of Mama Love contains notes of Wild, Orange is the New Black, and Catch Me if You Can.” – The New York Times
“A hilarious and heartbreaking confession that will not let you go until it is done–and then it will haunt you. It will give you hope in what is possible for each of us if we allow others–and ourselves–to move beyond our shame, find redemption, and write a new, more inspiring story of our lives.” – Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (8/26/2024)