Adrienne Brodeur

Wild Game (eBook, ePUB)

My Mother, Her Secret, and Me

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER ';Exquisite and harrowing.' New York Times Book Review';This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word.' PeopleNAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BYPeople *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* DebutifulA 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 lifeand her motheron her own terms. Wild Gameis a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, andthe 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781328519047
• Artikelnr.: 60896886

Autorenporträt

ADRIENNE BRODEUR began her career in publishing as the co-founder, along with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, of the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, which won the National Magazine Award for Best Fiction three times and launched the careers of many writers. She was a book editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for many years and, currently, she is the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute. She has published essays in the New York Times. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and children.