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The many lives of Mama Love : a memoir of lying, stealing, writing, and healing / Lara Love Hardin.

Hardin, Lara Love, (author.).

Summary:

"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]

Content descriptions

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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.
Subject: Hardin, Lara Love.
Women ghostwriters > United States > Biography.
Women prisoners > United States > Biography.
Literary agents > United States > Biography.
Heroin abuse > United States > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 17 of 34 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 2 copies available at Harnett County Library. (Show)

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  • 3 current holds with 34 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Angier Public Library B HARDIN Har (Text) 33632002722404 Adult Biography Checked out 04/30/2025
Benhaven Public Library B HARDIN Har (Text) 33630005373340 Adult Biography Available -
Albemarle Main Library B Hardin (Text) 31010000862625 Adult Biography Checked out 05/08/2025
Andrews Public Library B HARDIN (Text) 80605003717971 Adult Biography Checked out 05/05/2025
Beaufort Main B HARDIN (Text) 34208900215434 Adult Biography Available -
Canton Library B Hardin (Text) 33115007704544 Adult Biography In transit -
Clemmons Branch B Hardin, Lara (Text) 0112524027094 Adult New Biography Checked out 05/08/2025
Cliffdale Library 365.43 H (Text) 31781068731601 Adult Nonfiction In transit -
Cumberland Headquarters 365.43 H (Text) 31781068731593 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Enka-Candler Library B HARDIN (Text) 0020660110501 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 05/14/2025