These searing new memoirs sharply explore toxic, intimate relationships
EW reviews two of this fall’s buzziest memoirs Wild Game, by Adrienne Brodeur Adrienne Brodeur can construct a scene with the best of them. Her debut memoir, a smart if unsubtle chronicle of devastating family secrets, opens on Adrienne at 14, summering at her familys cozy Cape Cod beach house. Over the course of a bougie dinner party, she feasts on squab, endures an unsettling first sexual encounter, and takes on an enormous emotional burden: Her mother tells her shes embarking on an affair with her husbands best friend....