Wild Game
My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
“This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word.” —People
A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BY People * Refinery29 * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * NPR’s On Point * Town & Country * Real Simple * New York Post * Palm Beach Post * Toronto Star * Orange Country Register * Bustle * Bookish * BookPage * Kirkus* BBC Culture* Debutiful
On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me.
Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne’s life in profound ways, driving her into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life—and her mother—on her own terms.
Wild Game is a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s a remarkable story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us.
“Exquisite and harrowing.” —New York Times Book Review
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
How do you deal with life when you’re shielding a secret that could shatter your family? Adrienne Brodeur’s heady and harrowing memoir explores what happens after her mother, Malabar, confesses the details of her decades-long affair with a family friend to her 14-year-old daughter. Although Wild Game contains plenty of pain and anguish, Brodeur’s experience isn’t all bad. Malabar is an intoxicating presence and life with her is full of romance and good food. But Brodeur’s descriptions of the tension between mother and daughter cut to the bone, making this a heartbreaking pageturner.
Customer Reviews
Interesting
This book was interesting and different than other memoirs I’ve read. It was almost unbelievable at parts!