{"id":45525,"date":"2022-11-02T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45525"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:34:02","slug":"im-glad-my-mom-died-by-jennette-mccurdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/im-glad-my-mom-died-by-jennette-mccurdy\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It is a particularly exciting experience to read a popular book while it\u2019s popular, and I often am either too stubborn to be swayed into reading mainstream books or too far behind on my TBR list to add a brand new one. That was not the case with Jennette McCurdy\u2019s memoir, <\/span>I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died<\/i><\/strong><\/a>, which came out at the beginning of August and is already a smash hit. I was enthralled with the former Nickelodeon star\u2019s book and devoured it cover to cover.\u00a0<\/span>
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Maybe my childhood memories of watching McCurdy in <\/span>iCarly<\/span><\/i> fueled my ambitious reading speed, but the memoir itself stands strongly on its own apart from her child-stardom. Spanning the time she was just around 6 years old to her late twenties, McCurdy details the obsessive pressure her mother placed on her to be an actor. The fervor with which she wanted her daughter to be famous quickly developed in teaching her to \u201ccalorie restrict,\u201d which horrifically evolved into a life-long string of eating disorders of which McCurdy will never completely be free. Her mother also exhibited many signs of undiagnosed mental illness, manifesting most profoundly as hoarding and obsessively restricting her own diet.\u00a0<\/span>
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McCurdy\u2019s memoir moves linearly, a narrative choice that punches home the notion that mental illness itself does not follow a linear path of recovery. So much of the book is about the years of her adolescence and early adulthood she spent sinking farther and farther into a hole of self-loathing and self-destruction. McCurdy\u2019s life up until her mid-to-late twenties was riddled with addiction and bulimia, all the while smiling for Nickelodeon as if her life wasn\u2019t crushing her day after day. And then her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer.\u00a0<\/span>
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The death of McCurdy\u2019s abusive parent was unsettling and complex, a barrage of relief that she was free from the abuse but also sorrow that her mom was dead. Beyond this particularly warped brand of grief, she not only lost her mother but had to watch her slowly and viciously die. She posits the years of her life after her mother\u2019s death almost as a renewal, as it was the first time in her life that she had full control of her body and her career.\u00a0<\/span>
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Cathartic and achingly candid, McCurdy\u2019s memoir is a solid portrait of survival and the moxie it requires to laugh at and in spite of your trauma. If you have been considering giving <\/span>I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died<\/i><\/strong><\/a> a read, I highly recommend it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This title is also available as an eBook <\/a>on Libby<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is a particularly exciting experience to read a popular book while it\u2019s popular, and I often am either too stubborn to be swayed into reading mainstream books or too far behind on my TBR list to add a brand new one. That was not the case with Jennette McCurdy\u2019s[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[1774,4542,1187,1708,214,676,897],"class_list":["post-45525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-child-abuse","tag-eating-disorder","tag-memoir","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-nonfiction","tag-television-actors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-bQh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45525"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45525\/revisions\/45696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}