Wild Game (Brodeur) - Book Reviews

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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.
New York Times Book Review


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.
Toronto Star


Wild Game is 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. Wild Game, for all its luscious prose and tantalizing elements, is ultimately about the slow and painful process of losing a mother.
NPR


[A] vivid memoir…[Brodeur] writes beautifully, even tenderly, as a mother herself, aware of repercussions, knowing how it all ended.
BBC


I can’t stop thinking about this extraordinary memoir.… 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!
Orange County Register


Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me works effortlessly to earn my highest compliment for a memoir: It reads like a novel. The story immediately drew me in into [its] magnetic and complicated world.
Psychology


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.
Oprah Magazine


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.
Town and Country Magazine


This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word.
People


[A] mother’s affair with her husband’s best friend… 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.
Parade


(Starred review) This page-turning memoir about an especially fraught mother-daughter relationship from novelist Brodeur reads like heady beach fiction.… This layered narrative of deceit, denial, and disillusionment is a surefire bestseller.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review) Brodeur's story explores the bond between mother and daughter and the ripple effect a family secret can have when passed among generations. Highly recommended. —Erin Shea, Ferguson Lib., CT
Library Journal


An absorbing story of secrets, love, and family.
Booklist


[A] candid, deftly crafted narrative.… A vivid chronicle of a daughter's struggle to find herself
Kirkus Reviews