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I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy
challenging
dark
funny
sad
fast-paced
The writing is excellent! I loved being in her perspective, because of how insightful and emotionally intelligent she is. The choice to tell the story as if everything is happening in the present while her language develops along with the passage of the years without needing to tell us in what year something is happening (it’s easy to figure out with the reference points she gives: what song is playing on the radio, for example), to me worked perfectly and made it a much better memoir for it. I’m sure it will not work for everyone but to me it made it unique. I was never much of a Nickelodeon viewer growing up, so I was only vaguely aware of the existence of iCarly, and I’m glad I’m only getting to “know” her on her own terms. I hope she writes more books and is able to live her life to the fullest and only worrying about her own expectations for herself, she had to live up to other people’s for far too long.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Death of parent
Minor: Sexual assault