Новинки Эдриенн Бродер

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets—for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes .

Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings’ lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.

As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he’s determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family—Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit.

Set in the fraught summer of 2016, and drawing on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, Little Monsters is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.

Жаркой июльской ночью мать разбудила Эдриенн пятью простыми словами: "Бен Саутер только что поцеловал меня!" Дочь мгновенно стала сообщницей своей матери: помогала ей обманывать мужа, лгала, чтобы у нее была возможность тайно встречаться с любовником. Этот роман имел катастрофические последствия для всех вовлеченных в него людей… "Дикая игра" - это блестящие мемуары о том, как близкие люди могут разбить наше сердце просто потому, что имеют к нему доступ, о лжи, в которую мы погружаемся с головой, чтобы оправдать своих любимых и себя. Это история медленной и мучительной потери матери, напоминание о том, что у каждого ребенка должно быть детство, мы не обязаны повторять ошибки наших родителей, и имеем все для того, чтобы построить счастливую жизнь по собственному сценарию.

A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.

On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me.

Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne’s life in profound ways, driving her into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life—and her mother—on her own terms.

Wild Game is a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s a remarkable story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us.

У настоящей женщины нет проблем с поклонниками - их у нее хватает. Зато есть другая проблема: полное отсутствие выбора! Ни один из претендентов на ее руку и сердце не выдерживает критики! Вот почему двум подругам, Люси и Марте, приходит на ум