FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes local New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin for a reading and signing of her harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir. In The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing, Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter. Love Hardin will be in conversation with former mayor of Santa Cruz, Cynthia Chase.

"Start this thrilling, heartrending, funny book, and you won't stop. I couldn't. From page one, I was swept into Hardin's remarkable, un-put-down-able, artfully told story of suffering and redemption. This book can help anyone who's struggled and felt hopelessness (and who hasn't?). shows that not only can we survive the bleakest times, but we can thrive in them and because of them." —David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy