A review by brittanykroeckel
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

4.0

Although this memoir touches upon a plethora of heavy, vulnerable topics, Jennette approaches each with grace and ease. Her retelling of the chaos of her childhood years is presented in a easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand matter. Writing about what she does is not easy to do in the slightest, but she has done so in such a beautiful way I am in awe of her. She and her life are unfortunately strong examples of numerous things: the unstable development for child actors, the substantial influence a parents ways are on their children, the seemingly unbreakable attachments of eating disorders, and the toxic and appalling events that occur in the entertainment industry.

I gave it four stars instead of five because I personally struggled with chunks of the book and felt uninterested. However, I will say the final 100 pages of the book or so were some of the most powerful in the whole memoir. Well done.