The many lives of Mama Love : a memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing / Lara Love Hardin.
"No one expects the police to raid the million-dollar 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 the unloved women in jail as she climbs the social ladder to become the "shot caller," 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 and meditate with the Dalai Lama. But the shadow of her past follows her. Shame is a poison worse than heroin--and even harder to quit. Lara must learn how to forgive herself and others, navigate life as a felon on probation, prove to herself that she is more good than bad, and much more."-- Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982197667
- ISBN: 1982197668
- ISBN: 9781668069608
- ISBN: 1668069601
- ISBN: 9781982197674
- ISBN: 1982197676
- Physical Description: 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: [First] Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, dates, and paging may vary. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | As needed for pain -- Staycation -- Cul-de-sacs and squad cars -- Sally port -- Country music hell -- Makeover -- Lost girls -- Mama Love -- New year, new you -- Roll it up -- Neighbor from hell -- Push and pull -- Mother's day -- All buses lead to the same place -- Joint and several -- Fucking Google -- Four-minute mile -- A beautiful day in the neighborhood -- Dalai Lama hates me -- Many lives -- Real power -- Worst thing I have ever done. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benhaven Public Library | B HARDIN Har (Text) | 33630005373340 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | B HARDIN (Text) | 34208900215434 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | 365.43 H (Text) | 31781068731593 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| G.V. Barbee, Sr. Library | B HARDIN (Text) | 31420621476574 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | HARDIN (Text) | 33258009750303 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Hudson (Fontana) | Bio & Memoir HARDIN (Text) | 39493108965692 | Adult New Biography | Available | - |
| Leland Library | B HARDIN (Text) | 31423621382727 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | B Hardin (Text) | 25908008274537 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Macon County Public Library | 365.4 H (Text) | 39493110561851 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library | B HARDIN (Text) | 31421621429647 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
