
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I didn't expect much from this memoir, but was bowled over by how wonderful and inspiring the storytelling was. Lara Love Hardin's tale of riches-to-jail-to-more-massive-riches is a modern-day fable.
Told in a self-deprecating incisively self-critical style, Hardin has you aghast at what at her spiral of self-destruction, in which she was as she flushed away her life of upper middle-class privilege in the name of drug addiction and imprisonment.
Her struggles with the contradictions of parole and rehabilitation are just as devastating, and her rise to fame and fortune as she scrapped together a literary agent career, which she parlayed into even greater success as a writer, is the fascinating payoff.
This is a wonderful book, exquisitely written and delivered with an understated dramatic flair that had me captivated. I hope there are more lives of Mama Love for Hardin to live and write about in the coming decades.
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