Review by marissasa - I'm Glad My Mom Died

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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

I'm always in incredible awe of authors who find a way to bare their souls, feelings, and realities so honestly in their memoirs, and this one is no exception. I grew up watching Jennette on iCarly and had always known about the allegations against The Creator she references in this book, but to hear her side of the story and everything else she went through in her personal life during that time that I used to watch her on TV and laugh along just hits so hard. She writes so unflinchingly honestly, so bluntly, and somehow still humorously at the same time. Every chapter she details a new or deeper layer of trauma whether it's from her childhood, her mother, her acting career, her eating disorders, her alcoholism, or her mental health struggles in a way that demands attention and doesn't shy away from the pain of it, and then she often closes the chapter with a funny one-liner related to the earlier narrative. The things she has experienced and gone through are horrible things that no person, let alone a child , should have to go through, but I admire her bravery, integrity, and determination in ensuring that her experience doesn't go unvoiced and that people out there, exploited child performers and victims of abusive mothers alike, can hear her story and relate to it and know that healing is possible. I am so supportive of Jennette in her writing and creative endeavors, I truly hope she finds peace and healing and creates things like this book that she can be proud of throughout the rest of her life, and that this book continues selling out everywhere and makes her more than corrupt-ass Nickelodeon's hush money ever could have offered her. I can now say that I am also glad Jennette's mom died.

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