Book: I'm Glad My Mom Died
Written by Jennette McCurdy and published by Simon & Schuster.
This was a painfully hard read. It's an incredible book for how candid and honest it is, how it goes plainly over horrific events in the life of someone who is obviously broken but aware of their brokenness and on the path to becoming someone better. The amount of work done by the author that has made the writing and publishing of this book even possible is beyond commendable. Abuse is something you survive, something that leaves an undeniable mark. It is and always will be a part of you, there is no denying or escaping it. I find it hard to even contemplate or consider a complete disclosure of this kind. This might come across as a very incomplete review: I'm mostly glossing over the stuff about the broken, terrible culture around child actors and actresses, about putting children through that particular meat grinder. About on and off set industry abuse. The truth is that even writing about this book is to feel and relive the pain it recounts. It is feeling and reliving the pain of one's own trauma and abuses.
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