I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781982185824
I'm Glad My Mom Died is a memoir by the writer and former actor Jennette McCurdy, published by Simon & Schuster in August 2022. Adapted from her one-woman show, it describes her career as a child star and her relationship with her abusive mother. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
The title is a provocation, but Jennette McCurdy's memoir earns every word of it. 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. Painful, wickedly readable and ultimately liberating, it is proof that the most difficult truths can also be the most compelling.