Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.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
"This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word." --People
ADRIENNE BRODEUR began her career in publishing as a co-founder of the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, which won the National Magazine Award for Best Fiction three times and launched the careers of a number of writers. She worked for many years as a book editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and is now the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a initiative of the Aspen Institute. She has had writings published in the New York Times. Her husband and children live in Cambridge with her.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781328519030 |
| ISBN 10 | 1328519031 |
| Title | Wild Game |
| Author | Adrienne Brodeur |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harper |
| Year published | 2019-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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