The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

What makes Hardin an unreliable narrator? Does her unreliability affect her story’s perceived authenticity? Use examples from the text in your response.

Hardin criticizes the criminal justice system even though she credits it with saving her life. How does she reconcile this contradiction?

Hardin paints herself as an underdog, a disadvantaged woman down on her luck and faced with huge obstacles. In what ways is this portrayal true, and in what ways does this lack credibility?