Research Catalog

Title

Wild game : my mother, her lover, and me / Adrienne Brodeur.

Author

Brodeur, Adrienne

Publication

• Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xii, 237 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot July 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, 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."--
• 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, Brodeur 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

Subjects

• Mothers and daughters
• Authors, American
• Autobiographies
• Authors, American > Biography
• United States
• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Biographies
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography
• Brodeur, Adrienne > Family
• Families
• Hornblower, Malabar

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Contents

Adrienne Brodeur -- Malabar Hornblower.

Call Number

JFE 20-555

ISBN

• 9781328519030
• 1328519031

LCCN

• 2019004915
• 40029420056

OCLC

1080247612

Author

Brodeur, Adrienne, author.

Title

Wild game : my mother, her lover, and me / Adrienne Brodeur.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Brodeur, Adrienne. Wild game Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] 9781328519047 (DLC) 2019013400

Other Standard Identifier

40029420056

Research Call Number

JFE 20-555