{"product_id":"mainline-mama-keeonna-harris-9798874875169","title":"Mainline Mama: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful and wrenchingly intimate memoir about the formidable challenge of raising a family separated by prison walls and how we can fight back against a broken byzantine system.\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 impossible task of raising a child--while still growing up herself--with an incarcerated partner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this devastating and triumphant memoir, Keeonna recalls her harrowing 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 other 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 depression and suicidal thoughts that threatened to defeat her, how she learned to rebuild her broken relationship with a mother that 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 in a place designed to break spirits, such as picking the perfect wedding dress for a ceremony in a state prison visiting room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMainline Mama is about creating self-love and community--crucial acts of radical resistance against a prison industrial complex that is designed to dehumanize and to separate and shut away incarcerated individuals and their loved ones from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keeonna Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798874875169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Keeonna Harris","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46465867645183,"sku":"9798874875169","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8486b016-835f-49ae-96ed-a4a9803f95e7.jpg?v=1736347518","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mainline-mama-keeonna-harris-9798874875169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}