No one expects the police to knock on the door of the perfect housewife. But 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 learns that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and Lord of the Flies. But Lara quickly learns the rules and brings love and healing to her fellow inmates and ultimately to herself, and is able to overcome addiction and set herself in the course for a better future through the power of books and writing.

Thank you to @netgalley and @laralovehardin for the ARC! Lara has an incredible gift for storytelling and it really shone through in this memoir. Her life has definitely been a roller coaster and I admire her resilience and the emphasis she places on how education gave her the ability to overcome addiction and take charge of her life. Sometimes her account came off as a bit factual and detached in tone, and I would have liked to hear more of the emotional side of certain events that were explained. I’m also curious to know more of her upbringing as it wasn’t really discussed. I really enjoyed the role that writing and reading played in her getting her life back together. Overall this was a captivating memoir and I’d recommend it!