{"product_id":"mainline-mama-a-memoir","title":"Mainline Mama: A Memoir","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMainline Mama: A Memoir\u003c\/h1\u003eKeeonna Harris\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 1 2025\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780063205697\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0063205696\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful exploration of self-resilience, family, and community from activist and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was \"grown.\" Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a \"mainline mama,\" a parent facing the task of raising a child--while still growing up herself--with an incarcerated partner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this triumphant memoir, Keeonna recalls her challenging journey as a mainline mama, from learning to overcome the exhausting difficulties of navigating the carceral system in the United States to transforming herself into an advocate for women like her--the predominantly Black and Brown women left behind to pick up the pieces of their families and fractured lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeonna speaks frankly about the forces that threatened to defeat her, how she learned to re - build her broken relationship with a mother who had lost trust in her, and how time eased the shame, guilt, and stigma of being a young Black teen mom with a partner behind bars. She offers inspiration and solace, showing how to create moments of beauty, humanity, and love--such as picking the perfect wedding dress for a ceremony in a state prison visiting room--in a place de - signed to break spirits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMainline Mama is about creating self-love and community--crucial acts of radical resistance against a prison industrial complex designed to dehumanize and to separate and shut away incarcerated individuals and their loved ones from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44557010010157,"sku":"18797","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_cf86253b-b459-434d-8f26-0e5c61050b1e.jpg?v=1769329803","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/mainline-mama-a-memoir","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}