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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
by Adrienne Brodeur
Wild Game is 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 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 follows in a similar vein as The Glass Castle and Educated. A white female leads a quirky, unique life and then turns it into a bestselling novel. However, Wild Game is not nearly as good as its predecessors. Brodeur has presented an almost sparks version of her life and her relationship with her mother. Wild Game lacks the emotional depth that one would expect with a narrative such as this.
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 follows in a similar vein as The Glass Castle and Educated. A white female leads a quirky, unique life and then turns it into a bestselling novel. However, Wild Game is not nearly as good as its predecessors. Brodeur has presented an almost sparks version of her life and her relationship with her mother. Wild Game lacks the emotional depth that one would expect with a narrative such as this.