A Daughter Becomes An Accomplice To Her Mother's Affair In 'Wild Game'
As a teen, Adrienne Brodeur helped her mother keep a long-term affair a secret. In her memoir, she writes of realizing that being her mother's confidant didn't equal the unconditional love she sought.
by Ilana Masad
Oct 17, 2019
3 minutes
When I first googled the term "Malabar Brodeur," what came up was not, as I'd expected, her many New York Times columns or cookbooks, but rather a marriage announcement from March 17, 1974:
"BOSTON, March 16—Mrs. Malabar Schleiter Brodeur of New York and Henry Hornblower 2d of Boston were married here this afternoon... The bride, a staff writer for Time‐Life Books, and her husband, a vice president of Hornblower & Weeks‐Hemhill, Noyes, Inc., investment bankers, both have been married previously and divorced."
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