Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
October 15, 2019
Rec’d Book 9/22/19
Bookish First Giveaway
Nonfiction, memoir, ARC
Houghton Mifflin
I received a complimentary copy of this ARC from Houghton Mifflin and Bookish First Giveaway in exchange for an unbiased review.
Andrienne “Rennie” Brodeur shares her story growing up too soon and trying to navigate life within her dysfunctional family. As if life as a teen isn’t confusing enough Adrienne “Rennie” is burdened with keeping her mother’s secrets. The eccentric Malabar is a professional chef and remarried Charles after her divorce. Sadly, he has a stroke shortly after they married which changed the dynamics between the couple.
Although growing up in an affluent family in Boston and vacationing on Cape Cod, life was anything but stable. Her mother loved to entertain and be the object of attention with grand elaborate meals and parties. Her parents spent a lot of time socializing with Ben and Lily who were friends with Charles. Rennie and her brother Peter were educated in private schools while they continued to live in Charles’ mansion until it finally sold.
As much as Rennie feels guilt about keeping her mother’s affair with Ben a secret, she also relishes in the special attention she gets from her mother. It takes many years for her to acknowledge the relationship with her mother was inappropriate. But, as Rennie gets older and tries to find her own way independent from her mother she discovers more family secrets.
The lack of structure and parental guidance leads her to take a gap year in Hawaii. With unreliable family forgetting to reserve a condo for her, she quickly needs to fed for herself. She finds works at Pearl Factory in Kaanapali in Maui Village where she rents a studio apartment. Soon she becomes involved with Adam who was a 25 year old high school drop out selling weed to tourists when he wasn’t working with his father and brother at the printing factory.
This is a moving memoir in which the author explores her past to make sense of her present. Once she distances herself from her mother’s selfish, dysfunctional thinking she begins to accept herself as a unique individual who is not responsible for her mother. She begins to live life for herself with many pitfalls along the way. By falling down and getting back up she developed a strength she didn’t know was possible.
October 15, 2019
Rec’d Book 9/22/19
Bookish First Giveaway
Nonfiction, memoir, ARC
Houghton Mifflin
I received a complimentary copy of this ARC from Houghton Mifflin and Bookish First Giveaway in exchange for an unbiased review.
Andrienne “Rennie” Brodeur shares her story growing up too soon and trying to navigate life within her dysfunctional family. As if life as a teen isn’t confusing enough Adrienne “Rennie” is burdened with keeping her mother’s secrets. The eccentric Malabar is a professional chef and remarried Charles after her divorce. Sadly, he has a stroke shortly after they married which changed the dynamics between the couple.
Although growing up in an affluent family in Boston and vacationing on Cape Cod, life was anything but stable. Her mother loved to entertain and be the object of attention with grand elaborate meals and parties. Her parents spent a lot of time socializing with Ben and Lily who were friends with Charles. Rennie and her brother Peter were educated in private schools while they continued to live in Charles’ mansion until it finally sold.
As much as Rennie feels guilt about keeping her mother’s affair with Ben a secret, she also relishes in the special attention she gets from her mother. It takes many years for her to acknowledge the relationship with her mother was inappropriate. But, as Rennie gets older and tries to find her own way independent from her mother she discovers more family secrets.
The lack of structure and parental guidance leads her to take a gap year in Hawaii. With unreliable family forgetting to reserve a condo for her, she quickly needs to fed for herself. She finds works at Pearl Factory in Kaanapali in Maui Village where she rents a studio apartment. Soon she becomes involved with Adam who was a 25 year old high school drop out selling weed to tourists when he wasn’t working with his father and brother at the printing factory.
This is a moving memoir in which the author explores her past to make sense of her present. Once she distances herself from her mother’s selfish, dysfunctional thinking she begins to accept herself as a unique individual who is not responsible for her mother. She begins to live life for herself with many pitfalls along the way. By falling down and getting back up she developed a strength she didn’t know was possible.