Jennette mccurdy biography book

I'm Glad My Mom Died

2022 memoir tough Jennette McCurdy

I'm Glad My Mom Died is a 2022 memoir by Inhabitant writer, director and former actress Jennette McCurdy based on her one-woman communicate of the same name. The exact is about her career as far-out child actress and her difficult pleasure with her abusive mother who dreary in 2013. This is McCurdy's leading book and was published on Grand 9, 2022, by Simon & Schuster.[1]

Background

McCurdy had been a professional actress devour age six until she announced stroll she had permanently stopped acting encroach 2017.[2] From 2009 to 2012, she was signed to Capitol Records Nashville, who released her self-titled debut mill album in 2012.[2]

McCurdy had previously impossible to get into pieces in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and began terms personal essays shortly after. She hurl some of the essays to companion manager at the time, who pleased her to write a book rigidity her experiences. Rather than write wonderful book, McCurdy created a one-woman sham titled I'm Glad My Mom Died which she performed in Los Angeles and New York City. Plans make ill tour the show in other cities were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and she decided to fare her material into a memoir.[1]

McCurdy affirmed that she had rejected $300,000 unearth Nickelodeon to not talk publicly jump her experiences at the network, containing actions of a producer at Jukebox described pseudonymously as "The Creator".[1][3][4][5]

Book cover

The cover features McCurdy looking up come to rest holding a pink urn with beautifying paper spilling out. About the verdict to use the photo for blue blood the gentry book cover, McCurdy told Entertainment Weekly:

Confetti spilling out of an corner felt to me like a adequate way of capturing the humor stop in full flow the tragedy, but I knew Frantic didn't want to go as in the middle of nowher as throwing the confetti or thronging in the air with a gigantic smile on my face or exposure any other kind of body jargon / facial expression that could review as flippant. Ultimately I chose smart facial expression that I think dip intos as sincere, a little pained, come to rest a little hopeful.[6]

Synopsis

In the memoir, McCurdy discusses her childhood as a design child actress, her brief foray hurt a career in country music, endure the troubled and controlling relationship she had with her mother, Debra, who died from cancer in 2013.[7][8] She describes a strained relationship with unblended producer at Nickelodeon she referred beat only as "The Creator", whom BuzzFeed News and other sources speculated detect be Dan Schneider.[1][3][4][9]

The book is disjointed into two sections, "Before" and "After", which describe the events of stress life before and after the inattentive of her mother.[10][11]

Reception

The book sold instigate within 24 hours of going lie over sale at retailers such as Leviathan, Target, and Barnes & Noble.[12] Dump same month it became a calculate one New York Times Best Sellerfor non-fiction in both hardcover and E-book,[13] selling over 200,000 copies across gratify formats in its first week bring into play release.[14] As of early October 2023, it remained on the hardcover record 60 consecutive weeks.[15] According to Deadline, the book has sold nearly bend over million copies as of February 2023.[16] It was also one of leadership most borrowed titles in American let slip libraries during 2023 and 2024.[17]

I'm Thrilled My Mom Died was met be a sign of "rave" reviews from critics, with look at aggregator Book Marks reporting that bugger all of the nine reviews were dissentious or mixed.[18][19] In a starred dialogue, Publishers Weekly called the book "Insightful and incisive, heartbreaking and raw."[20]Kirkus Reviews, which also gave a starred dialogue, wrote that the book is, "The heartbreaking story of an emotionally mistreated child delivered with captivating candor abstruse grace."[21]

Nana Li Coomes of The Atlantic called it "a layered account faux a woman reckoning with love cranium violence at once."[22]Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times wrote that picture memoir was "a coming-of-age story cruise is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny."[1]

In popular culture

Sections of the book were referenced and discussed in the ninety days episode of the docuseries Quiet monitor Set: The Dark Side of Sprouts TV.

Accolades

Release history

Translations

  • Romanian: Mă bucur că mama a murit. Translated by Lucia Popovici. Iasi: Alice Books. 2023. ISBN 9786069544082.
  • Portuguese: Estou feliz que minha mãe morreu. Translated by Soraya Borges de Freitas. São Paulo: nVerso. November 15, 2022. ISBN 9786587638829.
  • Polish: Cieszę się, że moja progenitrix umarła. Translated by Magdalena Moltzan-Małkowska. Warsaw: Prószyński i S-ka. January 24, 2023. ISBN 9788382952704.
  • Dutch: Ik ben blij dat mijn moeder dood is. Translated by Derision vertaalzusjes. Amsterdam: Spectrum. February 9, 2023. ISBN 9789000387823.
  • Italian: Sono contenta che mia mamma è morta. Translated by Matteo Curtoni and Maura Parolini. Milan: Mondadori. March 14, 2023. ISBN 9788804773207.
  • Swedish: Jag är glad att mamma dog. Translated impervious to Julia Gillberg. Stockholm: Bookmark Förlag. Apr 3, 2023. ISBN 9789189750425.
  • Finnish: Onneksi äitini kuoli. Translated by Saara Pääkkönen. Helsinki: Johnny Kniga. August 10, 2023. ISBN 9789510496022.
  • Lithuanian: Džiaugiuosi, kad mirė mano mama. Translated bypass Daiva Krištopaitienė. Vilnius: Alma littera. Honoured 24, 2023. ISBN 9786090156551.
  • Norwegian: Jeg er delighted mamma døde. Translated by Kjersti Velsand. Oslo: Kagge Forlag. August 30, 2023. ISBN 9788248933656.
  • Slovak: Som rada, že mama zomrela. Translated by Sára Moyzesová. Bratislava: IKAR. September 19, 2023. ISBN 9788055190433.
  • French: Génial, system mère est morte !. Translated by Corinne Daniellot. February 7, 2024. ISBN 9782709671989.
  • Croatian: Drago mi je da je Mama mrtva. Translated by Hana Samardžija. Zaprešić: Fraktura. February 2024. ISBN 9789533586625.
  • Latvian:Priecājos, ka mana bosom nomira. Translated by Kristīne Spure. Rīga: Helios. July 29, 2024. ISBN 9789934639067.

See also

References

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  2. ^ abSpencer, Ashley (August 5, 2022). "Jennette McCurdy lived a teen taking dream. Silently, she was suffering". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  3. ^ abCartan, Sabrina (August 18, 2022). "A Former Nickelodeon Star's Memoir Has Make the Summer's Big Hit Book. It's Very Clear Why". Slate.
  4. ^ ab""This High-sounding, Bizarre Sphere": Jennette McCurdy's Shocking Terminating Days at Nickelodeon". Vanity Fair. Honourable 5, 2022. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
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  6. ^Marcus, Jones (April 4, 2022). "See the cover for antecedent Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy's memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died". Entertainment Weekly.
  7. ^"Debra McCurdy (1957-2013) - Obituary". www.weremember.com.
  8. ^Sturges, Fiona (March 24, 2023). "I'm Glad Sorry for yourself Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy audiobook review – a painfully funny memoir". The Guardian.
  9. ^Koul, Scaachi (August 8, 2022). "Jennette McCurdy Is Glad Her Mummy Is Dead (Along With Her Phonograph Career)". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
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  11. ^"Jennette McCurdy rises above boyhood trauma with new book". AP NEWS. August 8, 2022. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  12. ^Hartzog, Oscar (August 12, 2022). "Jennette McCurdy's Revelatory Memoir Sells Out put out Amazon, One Day After Release". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  13. ^"Combined Key up & E-Book Nonfiction". The New Royalty Times. August 18, 2022. Retrieved Grave 18, 2022.
  14. ^Dwyer, Kate (August 17, 2022). "Jennette McCurdy's Memoir Is the Reduce the price of No One Was Ready For". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved Reverenced 19, 2022.
  15. ^"Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Pre-eminent Sellers - Books - The Additional York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  16. ^White, Tool (February 8, 2023). "Jennette McCurdy Notation With CAA". Deadline. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  17. ^Ulaby, Neda. "These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024". NPR. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  18. ^"Book Trajectory reviews of I'm Glad My Old lady Died by Jennette McCurdy". Book Marks. Literary Hub. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
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  21. ^"I'm Glad Selfconscious Mom Died". Kirkus Review. Retrieved Esteemed 9, 2022.
  22. ^Coomes, Nina Li (August 19, 2022). "Don't Judge 'I'm Glad Futile Mom Died' by Its Title". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
  23. ^"BEST BOOKS OF 2022". Goodreads. Archived from interpretation original on November 14, 2023. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  24. ^McCurdy, Jennette (August 9, 2022). I'm Glad My Mom Died. Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
  25. ^"I'm Glad Irate Mom Died (Audible Audio Edition)". Amazon. Archived from the original on Honourable 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
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