Hi! I’m looking for a book that touches on complicated parents and relationships with them. My father was really abusive growing up, haven’t talked to him in years, and I really want to read a book from someone who understands and relates to the feeling of wishing your dad dies.
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i’m sure you’ve prob read it since it fits your request so specifically but “why i’m glad my mom died” by jennette mccurdy
I haven’t personally read this book but I think it might fit given what the title is and what I have heard about the book; I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
The obvious answer is I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.
Other memoirs about abusive parents (who were still alive when the authors were writing) are What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo and The House of My Mother by Shari Franke.
There are two I can think of:
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls – Not quite what you’re asking for, but a very good book with awful parents
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy – Title says it all lol.
Flowers in the Attic
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard maybe? It’s technically the first part of a six-volume autobiographical series, and quite dense, but while it does also spend some time looking back on the author’s childhood, his feelings about his hated/feared alcoholic (albeit never *outright* abusive) father’s death is definitely the main theme.