User:MariaJúlia1718/sandbox/I'm Glad My Mom Died
|
This article needs cleanup to meet our rules and guidelines. You can help by editing it. |
|
I'm Glad My Mom Died is a memoir by American writer, director and former actress Jennette McCurdy based on her one-woman show of the same name. The book is about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013. It is McCurdy's first book and was published on August 9, 2022, by Simon & Schuster.
Plot
In the memoir, McCurdy discusses her childhood as a successful child actress, her brief foray into a country music career and the troubled and controlling relationship she had with her mother, Debra, who died from cancer in 2013. She describes a strained relationship with a producer described pseudonymously as "The Creator".
The book is divided into two sections, "Before" and "After", which describe the events of her life before and after the death of her mother.
Why We're Glad Her Mom Died
TBA
Reception
I'm Glad My Mom Died was met with "rave" reviews from critics, with review aggregator Book Marks reporting that none of the nine reviews were negative or mixed. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called the book "Insightful and incisive, heartbreaking and raw." Kirkus Reviews, which also gave a starred review, wrote that the book is, "The heartbreaking story of an emotionally battered child delivered with captivating candor and grace." Nana Li Coomes of The Atlantic called it "a layered account of a woman reckoning with love and violence at once." Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times wrote that the memoir was, "A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny."
Trivia
- Some websites and people on the Internet said "The Creator" mentioned in the book is supposedly Dan Schneider.