She’s married again, a parent herself and a lovely writer.
Anyone with similar childhood circumstances will relate to the weightiness of filial duty depicted in Wild Game.īut Brodeur is also extraordinary for how, on the other side of this story, she has ended up basically OK. As Brodeur became personally invested in protecting the affair, she reveals herself to be an extraordinary case of the parentified child. Wild Game explores this secret’s impact on all of their lives, but primarily Brodeur’s own.īrodeur knew her mother had suffered a tragic life due to parental abuse and the later death of a child. Brodeur kept their affair a secret from her stepfather, both families, her friends and, later, even her own spouse. Brodeur learned the full contours of her mother’s discontent by becoming embroiled in her extramarital affair.īrodeur was only 14 when Malabar-a charming cookbook author wed to a wealthy man who soon fell ill after their marriage-divulged that she had taken a family friend, also married, as her lover. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur is a story of one daughter’s moral contortions to make her mother, Malabar, happy. Growing up means learning that our parents are not always content with their lives.
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