Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
Adrienne Brodeur
A few years ago, I devoured Adrienne Brodeur’s memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me. Like Sandwich, it’s set on Cape Cod and explores complicated mother/daughter relationship dynamics; however, Wild Game is much darker, the adults far less responsible and nurturing. For fans of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
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