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Wild Game

Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur is a story of one daughter’s moral contortions to make her mother happy.

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Review of ‘Wild Game’

Growing up means learning that our parents are not always content with their lives.

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur is a story of one daughter’s moral contortions to make her mother, Malabar, happy. Brodeur learned the full contours of her mother’s discontent by becoming embroiled in her extramarital affair.

Interview with Adrienne Brodeur

After a lifetime as her family’s secret keeper, Adrienne Brodeur faces the truth, finds compassion for her mother and breaks a generations-long pattern of dysfunction.

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