Welcome My Fellow Book Dragons to Throwback Thursday. Our Gem tonight may make you feel as though you are on the ocean, the waves pulling you back in time. It is crusted with sea salt and sand, dull and dim, as though it is not much to look at, but break away the crust and the light glints amazingly. The sea glass, thrown up from some long ago rum bottle or wine bottle, or window pane of a long forgotten pirated ship it now in your hand, and you are just off the coast of Cape Cod, looking out to sea. You can smell the dank, taste the salt in the air, feel the sand sticking to you.
Our Gem Maker, Ms. Adrienne Brodeur has given greatly of herself to bring us this Gem, Wild Game. She has exposed her childhood and her parents as a gull exposes a baby sea turtles soft underside and strips away propriety, secrecy and delicacy to bring us the rather indelicate, inappropriate bearing of a mother who could not mother, only suffocate, only use her daughter for a best friend, an equal, a peer, even though she was not ready. What 14 year old is ready to hear all the tawdry details of a 40 year old woman’s affairs?
I liked this book. I loved Adrienne’s pluck and courage to tell it. I loved the fact that she takes us back to those days of the 1970’s and 80’s, when even then life seemed simpler without computers and cellphones and all manner of gadgets. But most of all I love Adrienne, who, despite being misused and abused by her mother and her mother’s lover, learns to live. Learns to nurture and break the cycle of selfishness and puts in the hard work to do so. “Bravo”, I say, “Bravo”!
And so I encourage you, if you know someone, anyone, who needs some oomph to get out of a bad situation. Anyone who thinks they cannot turn things around. Who needs encouragement. Anyone who loves a good, old fashioned “pick yourself up and turn this ship around” story, get this one. It’s lovely, and feisty and you’ll be cheering Adrienne, too! This goes on sale 10/15/19 everywhere fine books are sold
Our Gem Maker, Ms. Adrienne Brodeur has given greatly of herself to bring us this Gem, Wild Game. She has exposed her childhood and her parents as a gull exposes a baby sea turtles soft underside and strips away propriety, secrecy and delicacy to bring us the rather indelicate, inappropriate bearing of a mother who could not mother, only suffocate, only use her daughter for a best friend, an equal, a peer, even though she was not ready. What 14 year old is ready to hear all the tawdry details of a 40 year old woman’s affairs?
I liked this book. I loved Adrienne’s pluck and courage to tell it. I loved the fact that she takes us back to those days of the 1970’s and 80’s, when even then life seemed simpler without computers and cellphones and all manner of gadgets. But most of all I love Adrienne, who, despite being misused and abused by her mother and her mother’s lover, learns to live. Learns to nurture and break the cycle of selfishness and puts in the hard work to do so. “Bravo”, I say, “Bravo”!
And so I encourage you, if you know someone, anyone, who needs some oomph to get out of a bad situation. Anyone who thinks they cannot turn things around. Who needs encouragement. Anyone who loves a good, old fashioned “pick yourself up and turn this ship around” story, get this one. It’s lovely, and feisty and you’ll be cheering Adrienne, too! This goes on sale 10/15/19 everywhere fine books are sold