{"product_id":"wild-game-my-mother-her-lover-and-me-isbn-9781328519030","title":"Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BY \u003cem\u003ePeople * Refinery29 * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * NPR’s On Point * Town \u0026amp; Country * Real Simple * New York Post * Palm Beach Post * Toronto Star * Orange Country Register * Bustle * Bookish * BookPage * Kirkus* BBC Culture* Debutiful\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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: \u003cem\u003eBen Souther just kissed me.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrienne 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild Game\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exquisite and harrowing.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word.” —\u003cem\u003ePeople \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA National Bestseller   A Best Book of 2019 from: \u003cem\u003eNPR * BuzzFeed * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlate * People*  \u003c\/em\u003eChicago Public Library * \u003cem\u003eReal Simple * Library Journal * Washington Post * \u003c\/em\u003eAmazon * CBC   A Best of Fall Title from: \u003cem\u003ePeople * Refinery29 * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * NPR’s On Point * Town \u0026amp; Country * Real Simple * New York Post * Palm Beach Post * Toronto Star * Orange Country Register * Bustle * Bookish * BookPage * Kirkus* BBC Culture\u003c\/em\u003e* \u003cem\u003eDebutiful \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the New England Society Book Award \u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003eA Book of the Month Pick (September)  An Amazon Best of the Month\/Spotlight Pick (October)  The Nervous Breakdown Book Club (October)  An Apple Best of the Month (October)  A Bookish “Kelly’s Pick” (Fall)\u003c\/strong\u003e  “Exquisite and harrowing . . . [WILD GAME] is so gorgeously written and deeply insightful, and with a line of narrative tension that never slacks, from the first page to the last, that it’s one you’ll likely read in a single, delicious sitting.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003e\"Wild Game \u003c\/em\u003eis a memoir, but it reads very much like a novel with a first-person narrator, bringing readers closely into scenes with vivid sensual detail that paints the atmosphere with the adoring eyes of the enthralled daughter the author once was. \u003cem\u003eWild Game,\u003c\/em\u003e for all its luscious prose and tantalizing elements, is ultimately about the slow and painful process of losing a mother.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003ePeople,\u003c\/em\u003e “Book of the Week”\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Brodeur is a deft memoirist, portraying Malabar as a woman traumatized by a violent parent and early tragedy. In this stunning tale of treachery—unsettling yet seductive—we are led through some of the darkest and most alluring corridors of the human heart.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"[A] vivid memoir…[Brodeur] writes beautifully, even tenderly, as a mother herself, aware of repercussions, knowing how it all ended.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBBC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Perhaps everyone has a memoir in them—but only \u003cem\u003esome\u003c\/em\u003e lives are instant and undeniable blockbusters. Adrienne Brodeur’s is one...Brodeur tells a story so extraordinary, so juicy, and so \u003cem\u003ewell\u003c\/em\u003e that your only option is to buy copies for your friends, too...The miracle of \u003cem\u003eWild Game \u003c\/em\u003eis that Brodeur’s writing is as incredible as her story. Brodeur captures the emotional gradations in a tense room as deftly as she establishes the sea salt air and elaborate dinners of her childhood...[Wild Game] will undeniably be the book club pick of 2019.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Adrienne Brodeur’s breathless memoir starts off with a bang…Every single turn of this memoir is gripping…Brodeur’s descriptions of her mother read like a paramour waxing rhapsodic, the recollections of someone in inescapable thrall…In \u003cem\u003eWild Game\u003c\/em\u003e, Brodeur shows us that what defines our lives is choosing just how bound we want to be.\"” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Brodeur’s memoir has set both Hollywood and publishing ablaze.”\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Shocking, poignant, unputdownable.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “It’s the kind of juicy what-is-happening memoir that just begs to be made into a movie.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  “\u003cstrong\u003eAn Amazon Best Book of October 2019. \u003c\/strong\u003eAn engaging, at times breathless, read that builds in anticipation, even after that bang of a beginning. There is barely a wasted word in the book, and the tensions that develop between various members of the family, good or bad, recognized or not—as well the tensions we feel as readers—keep the narrative humming. It’s difficult to describe what makes one memoir more readable than another. But put this one at the top of your list.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAmazon Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"As a 14-year-old, Adrienne Brodeur became the confidante for her mother and the possessor of one epic secret: her mother’s affair with her husband’s best friend. It set in motion years of consequences, grief and family struggles retold intimately by Brodeur and layered with detail, excitement and heartbreak throughout years of Cape Cod summers.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eParade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Juicy and delicious....\u003cem\u003eWild Game \u003c\/em\u003eis an honest reckoning of a dishonest time, a loving but critical portrait of a woman who prioritized her own happiness above all else, and an insightful retrospective of the author's complicity in an all-consuming lie....[Brodeur] is a gifted writer, with a particular talent for narrative flow. The story never lets up, and you won't want to put it down.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “A fascinating tale about a troubled mother-daughter bond and the effect that decades of lies has on two families.”\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eNY Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Adrienne Brodeur's stunning memoir is the kind of true story that makes you wonder why we'd ever need fiction. It's a beautifully written, totally engrossing story unlike any we've read before—and will surely be one of the most talked-about books of the year.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eTown and Country Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Here is a book you won’t want to put down for anything. Not since \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e has a memoir managed to convey such a complex family bond, in which love, devotion, and corrosive secrets are inextricably linked. Gorgeous, addictive, unflinching, \u003cem\u003eWild Game\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read.”\u003cstrong\u003e— J. Courtney Sullivan, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eMaine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSaints for All Occasions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     “As the saying goes, you can’t make this stuff up. [A] remarkable web of relationships in a privileged, Cape Cod world and the lies a daughter was forced to tell. Riveting.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “It’s a rare memoir that reads like a thriller, but Adrienne Brodeur’s \u003cem\u003eWild Game \u003c\/em\u003emanages to do just that. Beautifully written and harrowing, the book left me breathless.”\u003cstrong\u003e— Richard Russo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Destiny Thief\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEmpire Falls \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Vivid.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"I can’t stop thinking about this extraordinary memoir. In the spirit of \u003cem\u003eThe Liar’s Club\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/em\u003e, Brodeur takes on the complicated subjects of mother-daughter relationships and family secrets with masterful storytelling and cinematic style. Be forewarned that this book requires the buddy system; you’ll need to discuss it with someone the minute you finish!\"\u003cstrong\u003e —Allison K. Hill, \u003cem\u003eOrange County Register\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Entirely unique and utterly enthralling, \u003cem\u003eWild Game\u003c\/em\u003e examines the ardor of a daughter’s love, caught up in the relentless needs of her mother. In this courageous act of radical self-reflection and truth-telling, Brodeur untangles karmic threads that\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890253426917,"sku":"NP9781328519030","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781328519030.jpg?v=1730232872","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wild-game-my-mother-her-lover-and-me-isbn-9781328519030","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}