Bibliograph

Wild game, my mother, her lover, and me, Adrienne Brodeur

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Wild game, my mother, her lover, and me, Adrienne Brodeur

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wild game

Responsibility statement

Adrienne Brodeur

Sub title

my mother, her lover, and me

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

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