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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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Characters: 8
Atmosphere: 8
Writing: 10
Plot: 9
Intrigue: 10
Logic: 9
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.14

've read plenty of celebrity memoirs, and I often find myself disappointed at how flat and surface-level they seem. "I'm Glad My Mom Died" does not do that. This book exceeded all my expectations. Jeanette McCurdy has managed to write one of the most compelling and emotional memoirs I've ever read. If I had not grown up watching iCarly and you had told me Jeanette was a writer before being an actor, I would fully believe that based on this alone. The perspective being written by Jeanette at whatever age she was retelling was a fascinating writing style, and it worked extremely well.
Some people may come to this book for "the tea", and I'd highly recommend that you don't do that. You won't find it here. Instead, you'll find an emotional story of parental abuse and some inclusion of how Hollywood isn't the place for children. There is a level of delicacy that this book uses when referring to how Jeanette may have felt *at the time* compared to how she feels or how she recognizes where those feelings came from and I think that that's done really well.
I cannot recommend this book enough, it is one of the best modern memoirs of our generation.