Wild Game My Mother, Her Secret, and Me

Adrienne Brodeur

eBook - 2019

"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* DebutifulOn 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 ki...ssed 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... more