I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy was the last book I read in 2022 and what a book to end the year on!
This book is raw and authentic in a way I haven't come across in any previous autobiographies or memoirs. The honesty leaves you feeling openly concerned for Jennette as she goes about living her life. I found myself relating to far more of the book than I thought possible, and it just made the read all that more rich.
Now the title of this is definitely attention grabbing, but the truth of the mother daughter relationship goes deeper and is much more complicated. The attachment described in the book is not only uncomfortable but downright toxic, and this becomes more and more obvious the older Jennette gets.
With a beautiful and an enviable sense of humor Jennette McCurdy takes you on a journey through her life. This book must have been incredibly difficult for her to write but has themes that I think will leave everyone able to relate to one thing or another.
Personally, I related to this book from start to finish. The struggles included are things many women I know have struggled with. Jennette develops an eating disorder early on in childhood that continues into adulthood, codependent relationships, and abusing alcohol.
As many of you dear readers know, I have struggled with alcohol in my past as well. I admire the bravery of this book.
This book also gives you a peek behind the curtain when it pertains to Hollywood and child acting. Not everything is as sunny as it appears. In particular, this book has made watching ICarly a whole different experience knowing what was going on behind the scenes for at least one of the actors.
This books shows clearly that it isn't always so simple to identify and leave a toxic situation and sometimes it takes the death of a loved one to realize what had been happening all along.
I give this book 4/5 stars.
I think everyone should read this book. Even if someone doesn't directly relate to it, they will know someone in their lives that can relate to this and I cannot say enough about Jennette's sense of humor. An surprisingly enjoyable read for such heavy subjects.
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