Title: The Many
Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying,
Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Author: Lara Love Hardin
Narrated by: Lara Love Hardin
Publisher: Simon
& Schuster Audio
Length:
Approximately 8 hours and 59 minutes
Source: Review
Copy from Simon & Schuster Audio. Thank
you @simonandschuster #BookClubFavorites for the free books!
Do you like to read memoirs? I love memoirs. I feel like I learn so much from them about
people from all walks of life.
The Many Lives of Mama Love was one of my favorite
audiobooks from August, and honestly one of my favorites from this year. Lara Love Hardin poured out her heart in
this memoir. She tells the story of her
addiction, her incarceration, and her redemption as she pulled herself back out
to the other side. Lara was a mother living
in a nice neighborhood, but underneath it all she was addicted to heroin and
stealing her neighbor’s credit cards to pay for the habit. She and her husband were arrested, and she
ended up in jail. While in jail she
discovered the power structure within and the personal stories of her jail
mates. As a forty-something mother with
a master’s degree, she is able to use her powers for good to help others and is
nicknamed Mama Love. She also decides that
she is going to go clean for herself and her children.
After she gets out of jail, she becomes a successful ghostwriter
of New York Times bestselling books. I
was amazed listening to how she was able to meet with people like Archbishop Desmond
Tutu and the Dali Lama. She still had
setbacks and moments of doubt, but she persevered.
Lara Love Hardin narrated the audiobook herself and it
made this a very personal story. I felt
inspired listening to it and how hard Lara fought for a new life. This book really showed how addicting drugs
are and that they can become more important than anything else. It also showed how many people get stuck into
the jail system and how hard it is to get out.
I loved that it was a story of redemption. You can make a mistake in life, but you can
change your life.
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