If you like edgy stories and a variety of genres, try out our Not Your Mother\u2019s Book Club! Copies of \u201cI\u2019m Glad My Mom Died\u201d by Jeanette McCurdy are available at the Aurora and Dillsboro Libraries!<\/p>\n
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Thursday, November 14th<\/sup> @ 6:30 pm<\/p>\n The Depot<\/p>\n \u201cJennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother\u2019s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called \u201ccalorie restriction,\u201d eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, \u201cYour eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn\u2019t tint hers?\u201d She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.<\/p>\n In \u201cI\u2019m Glad My Mom Died\u201d, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail\u2014just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (\u201cHi Gale!\u201d), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.<\/p>\n Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor\u2014including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother\u2014and how she retook control of her life.\u201d -Goodreads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you like edgy stories and a variety of genres, try out our Not Your Mother\u2019s Book Club! Copies of \u201cI\u2019m Glad My Mom Died\u201d by Jeanette McCurdy are available at the Aurora and Dillsboro Libraries! Anyone 18+ is welcome to attend! Thursday, November 14th @ 6:30 pm The Depot \u201cJennette McCurdy was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[6],"class_list":["post-2777","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-adult-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}