i'm glad my mom died
which is jennette mccurdy's memoir (familiarly sam from icarly). the cover photo is brilliant even though it doesn't really capture the tone of the book. in rare form i gulped this down earlier this year. the writing has this character where the general use of language is sort of in line with a comedic delivery but the content of the book often doesn't match it (except for when it does). i would say it did really well to put me in the headspace of a kid that doesn't really understand what's going on as well as an adult that often still didn't have the language for it (the book is about the abusiveness of the child acting industry and her mom that put her into it). oh there has to be more than one book for it to be a list. my favorite book is beloved by toni morrison. so you get to choose between recent and fiction.