Ashley, Rah, Mariquita, and Alana Amore discuss the memoir, I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy. The conversation gets into thoughts about how Jennette wrote her experiences including her relationship with her siblings, going to therapy, and healing after her abusive relationship with her mother.
There are spoilers in this conversation. There are also conversations about the book content warnings.
Book content warning: eating disorder (anorexia and bulimia), child abuse, emotional abuse, alcoholism
Get a copy of I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Additional memoir recommendations:
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Mean Baby by Selma Blair
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Miss Me With That by Rachel Lindsay
March: Book One by John Lewis
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This episode was edited by Rah Hernandez and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
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![Happy Native American Heritage Month 📚️
Here are a few titles that we've featured before and have found a home on our shelves:
-Post Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
-Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Katlin B. Curtice
-White Magic by Elissa Washuta
-Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Futureby Patty Krawec
-Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwéseblu LaPointe
-Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst
What books by indigenous authors are on your shelf right now?
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