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A review by annescorner
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
5.0
Wow. This memoir is raw. I guess, that's the best word to describe it. Jennette McCurdy does not shy away to talk about the abusiveness of her mother, but there is still a tenderness to it that it affected me deeply. And the description, often VERY detailed, of her eating disorders is so heart-breaking. I think she was very brave to put out her memoir in this raw way, and at the same time I think she couldn't have had told her story in any other way.
I mainly picked this memoir up (via audiobook) because I was intrigued by the hype it got. But it really is what everybody is saying about it: great (not the content of course) and heart-breaking. I don't like giving memoirs star ratings, but this one deserves the 5 stars. There was nothing I would've cut out from it, as her childhood, teenage years, young adult life, the death of her mother, and what happens after are all so important in this story. You feel the love a child has for its mother, the heartbreak as a reader when hearing this child's story, and how all of it affected the child's later life, even after the cause is no longer with it. Kudos to Jennette for that.
trigger warnings: abusive family relationship, very descriptive and detailed eating disorder (mainly anorexia and bulimia), substance abuse, toxic relationships
I mainly picked this memoir up (via audiobook) because I was intrigued by the hype it got. But it really is what everybody is saying about it: great (not the content of course) and heart-breaking. I don't like giving memoirs star ratings, but this one deserves the 5 stars. There was nothing I would've cut out from it, as her childhood, teenage years, young adult life, the death of her mother, and what happens after are all so important in this story. You feel the love a child has for its mother, the heartbreak as a reader when hearing this child's story, and how all of it affected the child's later life, even after the cause is no longer with it. Kudos to Jennette for that.
trigger warnings: abusive family relationship, very descriptive and detailed eating disorder (mainly anorexia and bulimia), substance abuse, toxic relationships