Jennette McCurdy's memoir looks back at a childhood spent working in television and at the family relationship that shaped it, written with unusual bluntness and a dark comic streak.
The account moves from early auditions through adolescence and into adulthood, taking in the pressures of a career begun very young, the long work of therapy, and the slow business of building a separate identity. Humour sits close to the painful material throughout, which is much of why the book found so large an audience.
At its core:
• A first-hand account of child stardom told without gloss
• Frank treatment of family control, grief and recovery
• Comic timing used to carry genuinely difficult subject matter
• A widely discussed memoir that stayed on bestseller lists
For readers of candid memoir and anyone interested in the cost of early fame, the English edition is available from Boipoka.
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