A review by kimilyn
I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Everyone and their mom has raved about this book since it came out. It’s well deserved. Jennette looks back and portrays every event with humor and pathos. From her mother forcing her into acting at six and teaching her how to be anorexic at eleven, her alcoholism, her first romances, and finally her unraveling after her mother’s death. It’s tragic and upsetting but ultimately hopeful. 

I wish there had been a bit more about her coming to grips with her mother’s abuse. What it was like finally acknowledging it and coming to terms with it. Maybe a bit more about why she finally feels that she can be glad her mom died. 

This book was really good though. Powerful and vulnerable. Definitely recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Cursing, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Grief, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood