From mother and daughter to friends a memoir

REVIEW: Read The Aspen TimesвЂ™ review of вЂWild GameвЂ™ДЄs a child she was certainly blameless. To better understand how, beginning at age 14, she served as her motherвЂ™s confidante and co-conspirator, and in what ways her deceptions shaped her own struggles with depression and fraught relationships (including a marriage to her motherвЂ™s loverвЂ™s son).

SheвЂ™d begun writing it to make sense of the experience for herself. вЂњIt was just this thing I was doing and doing and doing.вЂќ вЂњWhen I was writing the book, I wasnвЂ™t writing for an audience and I wasnвЂ™t thinking anyone was waiting for it - I didnвЂ™t even really know why I was doing it at the time,вЂќ she said. вЂњWild GameвЂќ is positioned to follow the path of bestselling, acclaimed and hotly debated recent family memoirs like Tara WestoverвЂ™s вЂњEducatedвЂќ and Jeannette WallsвЂ™ вЂњThe Glass Castle.вЂќД«rodeur, a longtime book editor who splits her time between Aspen and Cambridge, Massachusetts, never thought of it in that way in the years she was working on it. (Read The Aspen Times review on page A8). ItвЂ™s a Book of the Month Club pick and a fixture on autumn most-anticipated lists. Brodeur and вЂњWild GameвЂќ have been featured in recent months in People magazine, Town & Country, Bustle, Business Insider and Entertainment Weekly, which called it вЂњthe next big memoir.вЂќ Vogue ran an excerpt. The book has drawn early praise, not only from the industry press including PublisherвЂ™s Weekly and Library Journal (both gave starred reviews) but from mainstream entertainment outlets.

вЂњWild GameвЂќ will be published Tuesday following two years of hype and often breathless prepublication attention.

From mother and daughter to friends a memoir