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Génial, Ma Mère Est Morte ! by Jennette McCurdy
3182 reviews
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Sexual harassment
Minor: Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent
Honestly, this book was a slog for about the first 100 pages. While Jennette is young, her writing is simple. Its hard to engage with. As you read on she gets angrier, her thoughts are more complex. Its like her writing is aging with her, maturing as you turn the page. I really struggle with those first 100 pages. I felt disconnected from the trauma, kept at arms length. Then as we enter the teens and young adult phases of her life, I’m actually enjoying the book as she really dives deep into what shes feeling. Her writing isn’t groundbreaking buts its tolerable enough to no longer distract me from the actual content of the book.
There is a lot of emotions on display. Mostly anger, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, grief, emptiness. Something in Jennette’s story will be relatable to you as she goes through the universal and unique hardships of womanhood and childhood abuse. But at the end of the day those emotions are all thats here. This isn’t the journey of healing you think it is, but the declaration of the attempt to start healing.
There were times this book was down right boring. The trauma is not hard to read or harrowing like some reviewers say. But I also don’t see this as an entitles celebrity who’s just complaining as other reviewers think. It just kind of feels like life’s normal bullshit that happens to a lot of us. The abusive parent, the OCD, the body issues, the alcohol problems, issues with relationships and sex. These are not uniquely celebrity problems. Which is either gonna pull you in or bore you to tears.
The title and blurb really give you the whole picture all by itself. I think I could have skipped this one.
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Dysphoria
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Alcohol
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent
Minor: Infidelity, Religious bigotry