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A review by breandthebooks
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
I’m Glad My Mom Died is an in your face title for good reason, Jennette McCurdy details not only her tumultuous relationship with her mother, but her time being a child star on one of the biggest networks of the last few decades and didn’t even want to be an actor to begin with. This book was not only deeply personal and heartbreaking, but gives you an inside look at what it’s like being a child and having so much fame ESPECIALLY when you do not want it.
Jennette brilliantly discuss her unfiltered thoughts about her mother and time before, during, and ‘after’ fame and you can’t help but be consumed, and shocked about how much she has had to go through. This story is so deeply personal you can tell Jennette really took the time to sit down and craft this story to be able to tell it on page. After reading this you can’t help but empathize and then praise how resilient
Jennette is for not only telling this story, but telling it in such a raw way and no longer trying to live in the image and or dreams her mother projected onto her.
Jennette brilliantly discuss her unfiltered thoughts about her mother and time before, during, and ‘after’ fame and you can’t help but be consumed, and shocked about how much she has had to go through. This story is so deeply personal you can tell Jennette really took the time to sit down and craft this story to be able to tell it on page. After reading this you can’t help but empathize and then praise how resilient
Jennette is for not only telling this story, but telling it in such a raw way and no longer trying to live in the image and or dreams her mother projected onto her.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcoholism and Schizophrenia/Psychosis