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Wild Game

2019 memoir by Adrienne Brodeur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me is a 2019 memoir by American writer Adrienne Brodeur. It recounts the author's collision with her mother, Malabar Brewster, to conceal an affair Brewster was having while Brodeur was a teenager.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Wild Game” is 2019 memoir by Adrienne Brodeur. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wild, Game and memoir, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wild, Game and memoir is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Wild Game” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.