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I'm glad my mom died by Jeanette McCurdy : Book Review

I'm glad my mom died (2022)

by Jeanette McCurdy


275 pages (Kindle Digital Edition)

Genres: fiction, contemporary, finished.


Rating : 5/5 🥰🥰


Very refreshing. Brutally honest and scathingly candid. Jeanette has bared her soul to the reader about her destructive tendencies encouraged by her mother and also showed through her effort and recovery that there is a silver lining to the most desperate situations.



Jeanette has been codependent on her manipulative and highly ambitious and controlling mom all the time she was alive. She wanted nothing but to please her and so did everything that did please her. Which was take up acting in kid shows and controlling her appearance through food restrictions. Her mother, a cancer patient doesn't make it out for long in her life but her ideas and judgements follow Jeanette way after she has left her. She becomes a compulsive bulimic and .. has non complete or unfulfilling relationships with men.. one of them Steven whom she thinks to be a perfect soul mate turns out to be a schizophrenic .. there are a few chapters where the shocks and surprises seemed to be endless and boundless. Well.. she tries therapy multiple times..once for Steven and cannot keep up. But then later on deciding what she actually wants, she makes for the change. In her life. And becomes more healthy .. giving up acting, changing her eating habits and even filtering down her friends.



Its a wonderful read. Despite being based on serious and deeply unhealthy subjects, this is written in a very engaging and funny style. I simply loved it and would love to see more writing content from Jeanette McCurdy!! Hurray! 

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