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The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club) : A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing and Healing, Hardback Book

The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club) : A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing and Healing Hardback

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AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CWA's ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award'Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop.' -Oprah WinfreyNew 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.

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