I'm Glad My Mom Died

A child actor pushed into performing by an abusive, controlling mother, McCurdy recounts eating disorders, exploitation and the strange grief of mourning someone who harmed you.

What could have been a misery memoir is instead sharp, funny and startlingly self-aware; McCurdy writes scenes like a comic and reflects like someone hard-won into wisdom. intendle recommends it as a bracing corrective to celebrity nostalgia - a book that refuses to soften its mother into a saint or its industry into a dream. Adapted from her one-woman stage show, it became a record-breaking bestseller and a Goodreads Choice winner, resonating with readers far beyond her Nickelodeon fanbase.