Lcuffe's Reviews > The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

I felt robbed by this book - I feel I barely got half the story. Maybe most readers know more about Lara Love Hardin than I do - I had never heard of her. I would have liked to read much more about how she grew up, what was her family like, who her influences and heros were. There were few references to her family, her childhood or her developmental or teen years. She indicated that her mother wasn't the best mother, but I wanted more details about her familial relationships - her sibilings, father, grandparents, and mother. Many of the illegal and terrible things she did are often precipitated by or connected to something in the past. Was there trauma in her home? Was she verbally or mentally abused? Were drugs and alcohol normalized in her home? I feel like someone ripped the first hundred pages out of the book and I started 2/3 of the way into the story.
Disappointing.