Mother Is Not Mothering: Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died

For the past almost two years, it’s been all but impossible to go into any bookstore without seeing the now indelible image of Jennette McCurdy holding a pink urn with confetti sprouting out of it as she bears an expression somewhere between hopeful, happy and defiant. As the book, titled I’m Glad My Mom Died, makes clear, it took McCurdy a very long time to … Continue reading Mother Is Not Mothering: Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died

Genna RivieccioApril 17, 2024April 17, 2024Leave a comment

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When Will You Accept Yourself?: Milk Fed

We don’t choose to exist on this earth any more than we choose who our mother might be. Accordingly, Melissa Broder’s latest, Milk Fed, wields Mother as the crux of Rachel’s daily struggle. Just three years after the release of The Pisces, Broder is building on an oeuvre of highly specialized neuroticism. The kind, they say, is unique to the Semitic mindset. And oh how … Continue reading When Will You Accept Yourself?: Milk Fed

Genna RivieccioFebruary 26, 2021February 26, 20212 Comments