Leaning into the most difficult memories, Wild Game is a testament to the possibilities of writing and art as means to find personal clarity. Brodeur describes the intoxicating effects of being chosen as her mother’s confidante-of protecting the secret for nearly a decade-without obscuring the costs of the affair that followed. Brodeur traces her own life as much as her mother’s, and uses the past to think carefully about how to move forward in her relationship with her own daughter. When Brodeur was fourteen years old, her mother woke her in the middle of the night to confess she had kissed a close family friend. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Adrienne Brodeur, whose memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, is out today from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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