Name: WILD GAME
ISBN: 9781784742584

ADRIENNE. BRODEUR

My Mother, Her Lover and Me

WILD GAME

Adrienne Brodeur

On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend. Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help, but when the affair had calamitous consequences for everyone involved, Brodeau was driven into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. In her memoir she examines 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. -- adapted from jacket

My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

Wild Game

Honestly unbelievable story about a mother & the burden she placed on her daughter. Quick read but pretty addicting

Rin Dav

Summer Stanley

Casie Blevins

There was such beauty in this novel. Beauty and pain and revelation. Several parts made me gasp out loud at the audacity of her mother. This book made me feel sorrow for both young and older Renni, but also hope, desperate hope. The writing is spectacular. Love should never be this hard, this grasping, this hollow. Very touching.

Nikki Cannon

Heather Margaret

Lindsie Lauzen

Kayla Higginbotham

Sang Park

Sarai Johnson

A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity Every time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me. On a hot August night on Cape Cod, when Adrienne was 14, 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; 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 doomed 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. This is a book about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them. It's about the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s about mothers and daughters and the nature of family. And ultimately, it's a story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us; that moving forward is possible. 'Not since The Glass Castle has a memoir conveyed such a complex family bond, in which love, devotion, and corrosive secrets are inextricably linked' J. Courtney Sullivan

WILD GAME My Mother, Her Lover and Me

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