{"id":2451905,"date":"2019-12-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317168"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:00:00","slug":"adrienne-brodeur-brings-wild-game-book-tour-back-to-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/adrienne-brodeur-brings-wild-game-book-tour-back-to-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrienne Brodeur brings \u2018Wild Game\u2019 book tour back to Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Wild Game” by Adrienne Brodeur is among the most anticpated American books the autumn season.<\/strong>
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Since her memoir, \u201cWild Game,\u201d was released this fall<\/a>, Aspen Words executive director Adrienne Brodeur has been on a whirlwind national book tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWild Game\u201d has become one of the most acclaimed nonfiction titles of the year, earning a rave in the New York Times Book Review, a recommendation from the The Skimm and winning spots on best-of-the-year lists at NPR, Slate and the Washington Post and Amazon.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, she returns to Aspen for a talk and signing at the Wheeler Opera House with the literary community she\u2019s called home since 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been on a tour for \u2018Wild Game\u2019 since October, traveling across the country to bookstores, libraries and literary events where at virtually every stop, members of the Aspen Words community turned out for me: Emerging Writing Fellows, Winter Words speakers, staff, Aspen Summer Words faculty and students, writers in residence and more,\u201d she wrote in an email Thursday. \u201cNever have I felt more buoyed by support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the homecoming event in Aspen, Brodeur will give a talk at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The book recounts her complicated relationship with her narcissistic mother and details the role she played in abetting an extra-marital affair her mother carried on from Brodeur\u2019s teenage years through early adulthood.<\/p>\n

It was the subject of breathless prepublication attention, both in the publishing industry press and mainstream entertainment outlets. Before the book\u2019s release, Brodeur \u2014 a longtime book editor who splits her time between Aspen and Cambridge, Massachusetts \u2014 said she hadn\u2019t thought much about how the public might receive \u201cWild Game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t imagine a lot of people were going to relate to it,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought the writing was good because I worked very hard on it, but I never thought, \u2018Oh, this is the one people are going to connect to,\u2019 because it is shocking and it is unusual. I don\u2019t think a lot of people have had a similar experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019d begun writing it to make sense of the experience for herself. To better understand how, beginning at age 14, she served as her mother\u2019s confidante and co-conspirator, and in what ways her deceptions shaped her own struggles with depression and fraught relationships.<\/p>\n

A film adaptation, by \u201cEdge of Seventeen\u201d writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, is in development.<\/p>\n

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“Wild Game” by Adrienne Brodeur is among the most anticpated American books the autumn season.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Since her memoir, \u201cWild Game,\u201d was released this fall, Aspen Words executive director Adrienne Brodeur has been on a whirlwind national book tour. \u201cWild Game\u201d has become one of the most acclaimed nonfiction titles of the year, earning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 03:33:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}