What Daughters Do with Inherited Damage
Two memoirs confront maternal authority and its damage. Jennette McCurdy seeks distance from the past. Arundhati Roy traces how it remains inside literature
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Jennette McCurdy
Parental control shapes identity through dependency, ambition and public performance.
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I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy’s memoir recounts a childhood shaped by maternal control of body, career and identity. The child narrator mistakes devotion for coercion.