Wild Game
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me is a 2019 memoir by American writer Adrienne Brodeur. It recounts the author's colluding with her mother, Malabar Brewster, to conceal an affair Brewster was having while Brodeur was a teenager. Background The author used her parents' actual names, but she changed the names of other parties featured in the story. Adrienne Brodeur's mother, Malabar Brewster, was a food writer for The Boston Globe. The book's title comes from the name of an unproduced cookbook Brewster planned to write with her husband, Charles; her lover, Ben Southern, a hunter; and Ben's wife, Lily. Beginning in the summer of 1980, the book recounts the 14-year-old Brodeur as she accompanies her mother and her lover on walks and waits for them as they go off on their trysts. Brodeur stated that her mother supported her efforts to have the book written. By the time it was completed, however, Brewster's dementia had worsened to the point she could not read the book. Reception Wild Game was named a national bestseller. It won the New England Society of New York 2020 Book Award in the nonfiction category and was ranked by People as one of the