Memoir
From Darkness to Light: Inside a Painful Memoir
A Powerful Narrative of Survival and Self-Acceptance
Jennette’s Mom is in the ICU at the hospital. She is in a coma. The doctor told them she had forty-eight hours to live. Her brothers give big news to try and get Mom to wake up. One was getting married, and the other was moving back to California. But Mom doesn’t wake up.
It was her turn to talk to her mom and try to wake her up. She needed something big—something her Mom cared about more than anything.
“Mommy. I am … so skinny right now. I’m finally down to eighty-nine pounds.” She speaks.
She waits. And waits. But Mom does not wake up. She is shocked because if her weight isn’t enough to get her Mom to wake up, then nothing will be. And if Mom dies, how will she live? Her life’s purpose has always been to make her Mom happy.
So, without Mom, who is she supposed to be now?
Life is a movie in which her mother is the director, and she is the actor — a very good actor. And if she dies, what will she do with herself?
This is how the 304-page memoir of Jennette McCurdy starts in I’m Glad My Mom Died.
