I’m Glad My Mom Died. By Jennette McCurdy. Audiobook

“Not many people rise to her level of fame or are so deeply abused, but McCurdy’s narrative will feel familiar to anyone who has navigated poverty and trauma. Taking advantage of the store discount at your dad’s retail job, tuning out screaming matches between parents, avoiding calls from debt collectors  this is what childhood is like for millions of Americans. Like many, I recognized myself in her words.” – Sabrina Cartan, Slate

“Unflinching This year’s most candid book I’m Glad My Mom Died made me laugh; it made me cry. It’s such a funny, dark, moving, honest, real, uncensored book, and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever read.” – Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon 

“[The] number-one New York Times-bestselling memoir that has also achieved pop-cultural phenomenon status I’m Glad My Mom Died is more than source material for a deluge of headlines about Grande and the slimy advances of a Nickelodeon svengali McCurdy calls simply ‘The Creator.’ McCurdy distinguishes herself from standard-issue celebrity memoir fare with a vivid, biting, darkly comic tone and an immersive present tense.” – Michelle Ruiz, Vogue

“For McCurdy, this book isn’t just her writing debut. It’s a reckoning with guilt and grief after her mother’s premature death. It’s healing from multiple eating disorders and processing decades of trauma. It’s finally doing what she wants for the first time: not acting. Writing Healing from trauma looks different for everyone: For McCurdy, writing this memoir symbolized empowerment over her narrative. And understanding that it’s OK not to forgive her late mother provided her peace.” – Jenna Ryu, USA Today

“McCurdy’s book must be written by someone. Why? It must be done because there is someone out there right now who truly believes that life will never be any different. They truly believe that they will live under their parent’s thumb, never have the life they wanted, not trust their own agency, their own minds, and people like Jennette exist to tell them: You are not wrong, you can trust yourself. You can do this too.” – Erin Taylor, Observer

“A stunning memoir [McCurdy] reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline. It’s a document not just of all she’s endured, but also of the wisdom she accrued along the way.” – Sam Lansky, Time

“A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny.” – Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times

“[A] magnum opus sharply funny and empathetic.” – Ashley Spencer, The Washington Post

“McCurdy strips away the candy-coated facade of her sitcom experiences.” – Vanity Fair

“McCurdy asks readers a question: When and how does one rid oneself of the cage created by others and walk freely? Her stunning debut offers fierce honesty, empathy for those that contributed to her grief, and insights into the hard-fought attachments and detachments of growing older.” – Booklist (starred review)

“Delivered with captivating candor and grace.” – Kirkus (starred review)

“Jennette McCurdy is the queen of lemonade from lemons, using her trauma to weave a painfully funny story that also illuminates the commodification of teenage girls in America. An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one.” – Lena Dunham

“Jennette’s road to finding herself – removed from the expectations of her mother – is impressively funny. She fuses nuanced relationships, complex grief, religious whiplash and Hollywood trauma into a bold story with a specific comedic voice.” – Jerrod Carmichael

“How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It’s an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it here. I’m Glad My Mom Died is hysterical and heartbreaking and fascinating all at the same time.” – Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things and Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

“I’m Glad My Mom Died is furious, sad, brave, knowing, honest, heart-wrenching, and utterly compelling. McCurdy writes with a keen insight and startling compassion. Whether showing how dysfunction can seem normal to those most affected, the torture of eating disorders, or the mindfuck that is child stardom, McCurdy brings readers deep into the milieu so often hidden from outsiders. This is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story as fearless as its author.”  – Lauren Hough, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing

“Jennette McCurdy’s book is a coruscating picture of her life as a child actor, devastatingly honest and with great understanding of the psychology and emotions operating at a deep level. It’s a riveting read, entertaining and very touching.” – Hayley Mills, New York Times bestselling author of Forever Young

“Jennette’s career as an actor was simply a character in a much more important story. She is a natural writer with a wonderful sense of humor. Her story is heartbreaking with a nice balance of hopeful. I could not put this book down.” – Laraine Newman, original cast member of Saturday Night Live and author of May You Live in Interesting Times