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
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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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