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★★★★☆ 4.44 • Goodreads

Loved Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten for its unvarnished ambition and fierce honesty? Meet I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Raw truth-telling w/o celebrity polish
  • Dark humor meets crushing family dysfunction
  • Bold agency reclaimed from toxic relationships
  • Hollywood insider secrets + survival tactics

If you loved Ina Garten's unvarnished take on ambition—the way she turned a whim into an empire without pretending it was effortless—Jennette McCurdy's memoir doubles down on that same fierce honesty, swapping Hamptons charm for Hollywood's brutal machinery. Here's another woman who refused the polished narrative, who built agency from wreckage and found empowerment not in talent but in choosing herself when every system told her otherwise.

Read this if you're ready for the memoir that trades dinner parties for hard-won freedom.

McCurdy wields dark humor like Garten wields a wooden spoon: both tools for survival, both deployed with timing that makes you laugh before you realize you're learning something essential about resilience.

Read this if you're ready for the memoir that trades dinner parties for hard-won freedom.

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What Readers Are Saying

"Jennette McCurdy is extremely talented in her writing...this book alone was a literary masterpiece. It was very raw and real in my opinion...I'm glad to see Jennette thriving in her writing career." Ayman, Goodreads
"I finished this book in one sitting (which is really saying something, considering I’ve barely been able to read anything for more than ten or fifteen minutes at a time recently). I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a rough read emotionally but the writing is incredible. She’s a really talented writer and I hope we see more from her in the future." gizmodriver, Reddit
"I adored this book. It is so rare for me to be impacted this deeply... She impacted me so much with her honesty and I can't thank her enough for writing not only a horrifying story but also a d*** good book." Katie Colson, Goodreads

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