I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jeanette McCurdy
The Book Jeanette McCurdy played Samantha "Sam" Puckett on Nickelodeon's iCarly. The book follows small, six-year-old Jeanette from the phase of hero worshiping her mother, and becoming an actor to fulfill her mother's personal ambitions to adulthood and learning to live for herself. When Jeanette was two years old, her mother beat stage four cancer. As a result, her mother started living her life with more vigor. She "encouraged" Jeanette to start acting and soon, Jeanette is enrolled in acting classes with a bunch of other kids. Jeanette, feeling grateful for her mother's recovering is willing to do anything, anything at all, in order to make her mom happy. Throughout her childhood, Jeanette experienced several forms of child abuse, it seems the most serious of which was the enmeshment between her and her mother. Jeanette goes from wanting to please her mother, to being cast on iCarly . Her mother pushed her until she reached the top. Je...
