• "Nonetheless, her story provides an accessible, encouraging model of how to construct a family with hope and intention. Quietly revelatory and affirming."

    Kirkus Review

  • "Readers will be inspired."

    Publisher's Weekly

  • "While bracing, intimate, and immensely personal, Mama is also a quintessential story of our American generation: the story of growing up in the throes of Mass Incarceration."

    -Max Kenner, executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative