The Many Lives of Mama Love

By Lara Love Hardin,

Book cover of The Many Lives of Mama Love

Book description

“Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • 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…

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1 author picked The Many Lives of Mama Love as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is a freight train, and from the very first page I was grateful to be along for the ride. Lara writes so vulnerably about the challenges of being a mom of four, both as a pre-prison thief/addict and then after as a post-prison felon/ghost writer/author/literary agent. It didn't feel like I was reading, instead it felt like I was having an incredible conversation with a close friend. Typically I read a book over a span of a weeks, a little every night. But I tore through The Many Lives of Mama Love in two sittings, desperate to see…

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